Gizmodo: Wallet

Ray Gun Wallet, For Future Spending

Mark Wilson — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:00:43 EST

Fact : Guns from the future belong on your person. And this ray gun wallet is the best way to score pocketable space weapons for at least the next decade or so. Handmade by sandwiching the geek chic design along with Japanese newspaper clippings between vinyl, the wallet won't look like a laser-firing galactic dildo, but holding one in public may scare your friends and significant others all the same. Then again, you aren't trying to look "cool" cool, which is why you're thinking about laying down $13 for this wallet. [etsy via superpunch]

Find One, Find All - I'm on Your KeyFobz, Making a Noize

msparkes — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:44:38 EDT

If, like me, you lose your keys and wallet on an almost daily basis, then you just might be desperate enough for gadgets like this. The Find One, Find All is a little radio receiver that you attach to your commonly lost items. You can then use another one— yes, you have to buy two—to track it down. There are six keys, and additional units can be programmed to different numbers. Lost your keys? Press 1. Lost your wallet? Press 2.

The unit programmed to that number will then start to make a noise that, "gets louder the closer you get to it." Just like any other noise would do then, really. A set of two FOFAs is $24.95, and additional units are $12.47 each. If you're really dedicated to never losing your keys again, then you could splash out for the $99 Loc8tor handset, which will track down up to 24 fobs. [Inventor Spot]

Stewart/Stand Wallet Protects More Than Just Your Money

AddyDugdale — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:31:26 EDT

Woven industrial-grade stainless steel is the material used for this Stewart/Stand-designed wallet, meaning your moolah and credit cards get grade-A protection from rain, sweat—and even identity thieves looking to get their hands on your RFID information.

Made from the same finely woven steel used in petroleum processing and aerospace applications, the wallet is, apparently, as smooth as silk. The fact that it doesn't stretch, rip or stain means that it is virtually indestructible. But it's the RFID protection that is the most interesting facet of this silver-colored billfold.

The steel in the wallet creates a Faraday cage, a shield that blocks out external electrical fields, which means no access for any baddies who are trying to steal your identity—unless they're an old-fashioned fingersmith, in which case you're screwed.

The steel wallet is available in several designs and costs between $80 and $125.

[Stewart/Stand via Wired]

Dosh Waterproof Wallet Keeps Keys and SIM Cards Safe

kevinhall2 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:31:46 EDT

BlueSky Design Group's Dosh wallet takes advantage of flexible and semi-flexible polymers so that it's not only tough and bendable, but waterproof to boot. You've got the usual space for credit cards and bills, an area for coins and a compartment that can hold keys and SIM cards. It runs on the large side and is missing the display area we're used to for a photo ID. Don't like that safety vest orange? You've got a few colors to choose from.

The Dosh comes in orange, white, charcoal and chocolate, and sells for around 40 bucks. [Dosh via Popgadget]

Digital Photo Wallet Still Has Obnoxious Pictures of the Kiddos

Travis Hudson — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:15:34 EDT

Flipping out the accordion of pictures of your kids (or cats for the singles) is no more. This $50 wallet comes with a small digital photo frame that can hold up to 55 pictures. Connect it via USB for picture transfer and for recharging. The 1.4-inch screen is just small enough to prove that you can actually procreate, but not too big where people will see how ugly the kids (or cats) are. –Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Outblush]

Duct Tape Wallet Kit

Jason Chen — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:00:55 EST

If following simple directions online in order to make a duct tape wallet is somehow too sophisticated for you, take a look at this Duct Tape Wallet Kit. myDuctBills shows you with a printed manual (complete with pictures!) how to make a wallet out of duct tape, and even gives you all the materials you need. Yes, materials such as duct tape.

The kit also comes with three bits of colored tape in order to stylize your end product, because really, people with duct tape wallets care loads about how their wallets look. – Jason Chen

Product Page [My Duct Bills via Oh Gizmo]

Walletex Wallet Flash Credit Card MP3 Player

Jason Chen — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:32:28 EST

Carry around one less thing when you trade in your standard MP3 player for the Wallet Flash. It's a credit card-sized player with a double-sided USB adapter (you can plug it in any direction) and built-in playback controls.

The storage ranges from 128MB to 2GB, and is encased in a PVC shell which actually feels pretty solid. We're still worried about accidentally snapping it off when it's plugged into a PC, but that's true for all long USB devices.

The thing gets 5 hours of battery life and can even be integrated with barcode, RFID or USB functionality for authentication. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Walletex]

Locking Wallet for Gambling Addicts

Brian Lam — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:47:38 EST

You know when you go to a casino, and you're up up up up up?! And then you keep playing, until you're so bust you can't even afford a milkshake at some crappy Reno Diner? And then you make out with the 60-year old cougar waitress for her tip jar, just so you can afford gas for the drive back home? No?

Then neither have I.

But if I were some sort of psychotic with a crippling gambling addict I'd probably consider getting the Winner's Bank 200 locking wallet...

As long as you leave the key at home, the wallet's metal, cigarette case sized shell will store your cash or chips so you can't lose em to the house. It sounds crazy. But it just might work. Or I might just get so desperate for money that I drive over and over the case with my car until it pops open. I mean, SOMEONE who is addicted to gambling, yeah, they might do that. Not me.

The instructions are mindblowing:

Instructions on how to use your Winners Bank200:

1.
Leave the keys at home!
2.
Also leave at home all credit cards, ATM cards, and checkbooks.
3.
Bring only a set amount of money, along with a positive, winning attitude.
4.
Have a "Winner's Game Plan." (Read "Winners Bank200 " Card)
5.
When you win, put it in. Put at least 50% of all your winnings.
6.
Winners Bank200 accommodates multiple monetary units including casino chips.
7.
When inserting paper money, fold the bill into eights.
8.
Pull out the "Winners Bank200 " Card, and position it to push the money in.
9.
"Showfor the Money!" into your Winners Bank200 by pushing it in.
10.
Do NOT attempt to pick or break your Winners Bank200.
11.
When you get home, insert the key into the back panel of the keyhole.
12.
Turn the key hard clockwise (to the right).
13.
With the key attached, remove the back panel and get your money out.
14.
Replace the back panel and secure it by turning the key counter-clockwise (left).
15.
Now you are a REAL Winner!

–Brian Lam

The Winner's Bank 200 [The Winner's Bank]

Wallet 2.0, a Filing Cabinet for Your Pocket

Charlie White — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:32:28 EDT

There's no shortage of wallets from which to choose, but here's one that promises to keep you organized. Wallet 2.0 by Aeroportz resembles a filing cabinet you carry in your pocket. It's made of soft and pliable gummy silicone, holding your stuff in slim sleeves the company calls refill sheets. Each one can hold three cards, a few pills or lots of coins.

It's a design concept so far, but if its designer Steve Gates can make it a bit thinner and put some RFID-resistant foil in there, he might be onto something. – Charlie White

Product Page [Aeroportz, via OhGizmo]

Mophie Knox 2nd Gen iPod nano Wallet

Travis Hudson — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:00:31 EDT

Finally, a multi-use iPod case. This case, called the Knox, was designed to be a wallet and iPod case! It is constructed out of aircraft-grade aluminum and can easily hold your nano along with any wallet essentials like cash and credit cards. It has a small port so the wallet can stay closed but you can still listen to the iPod. The Knox is available for $44.99. I hope it's not too thick—thick wallets always make my ass go to sleep. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [mophie]

Pacific Design iPod Nano Uptown Clutch Wallet

Jason Chen — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:15:18 EDT

As tired as we all are of iPod cases, this Pacific Design iPod Nano Uptown Clutch wallet seems pretty neat. It looks just like a standard ladies wallet with slots for credit cards and cash, but also has a pocket for the iPod Nano and a pocket for headphones.

At only $29, the Uptown Clutch is fashionable and cheap. A perfect present for your wife the next time she complains about how your presents for her are actually presents for yourself. As if she didn't enjoy that Norelco Bodygroom as much as I did. – Jason Chen

Product Page [eBags via Popgadget]

Faraday Cage Passport Wallets: Jams RFID-Chipped Travel Docs

Brian Lam — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:01:00 EDT

Wired News reminds us that today, the US starts issuing passports with RFID chips inside. Privacy nuts will want to remember these Faraday Caged passport wallets from DIFRWEAR. Beats us if it will "foil" (heh, get it?) the radio signals from your travel docs, but it sure beats wearing a lead overcoat through LAX Customs.– Brian Lam

RFID-Blocking Passport Case [DIFRWEAR]
Chipped Passports Coming Monday
[Wired]

DIY Glowing Wallet (AKA "Walluminate")

Brian Lam — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:16:35 EDT

Remember that glowing wallet we wrote about two weeks ago? Turns out, it sucks. this guy figured out how to do it better, with a little bit of DIY-spirit, using a few LEDs from an old cellphone, and some button batteries. Sweet, sweet mod. I'd like to be the guy in the club with a wallet full of light...and in this case, lint.– Brian Lam

Walluminate Instructions [ Cre.ations.net ]

Walit Illuminating Wallet

Jason Chen — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:24:25 EDT

We don't know how old this is, but after accidentally giving that woman—we think it was a woman—three hundred-dollar bills instead of three twenties because it was so damn dark, we thought you readers could find a use for this also.

The Walit wallet has an electroluminiscent strip on the inside of the wallet, where the cash goes, to light up your cash at night. The lights are powered by 4 replaceable watch batteries, and the wallet is made of "sexy leather"—the best kind of leather, in our opinion.

Available now for 14.95 ($27.70). – Jason Chen

Product Page [Gadgetstorm via Oh Gizmo]

Silver Wallet #1 Ejects Credit Cards With Button Push

Charlie White — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:31:45 EDT

Not sure how this block of aluminum would feel in your pocket if you sat on it, but the Silver Wallet #1 has six slots for credit cards, driver's licenses or IDs and can spit them all out with the push of a button. Its mechanical battery-free design has six of those buttons, each with your choice of interchangeable icons or colors.

The Silver Wallet's manufacturer says credit cards' magnetic strips will last much longer when you're using this device because only the outside edges of the cards are touching anything inside the wallet. But what do you do with your cash? Available today for $39.99.

Silver Wallet #1 [fractalspin, via The Uber-Review]

RFID-Blocking Wallet and Passport Case

Charlie White — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:02:47 EST

For those who are paranoid about RFID readers lurking around every dark corner, here's a wallet that blocks those signals, assuring you perfect privacy. Its shielding will make sure any passive tags you have stored in this wallet won't be able to inadvertently reveal any of your personal information.

The company also offers a RFID-blocking passport case, which will solve that problem of being an easily-identified sitting-duck American if terrorists should decide to carry RFID readers with them. The passport case is just $18, and at $15, the wallet is reasonably priced, too.

Product Page

Al Gore's Perfect Gift: Jimi Wallet

tgrumet — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:30:38 EST

Okay, I have no information that Al Gore even knows that this product exists. But it is the perfect gift for our former Veep. It's boring, for one thing. But also environmentally friendly and high tech. The Jimi is made of 100% recycled, semi-transparent plastic, and its manufacturer promises to put 1% of its profits back into the environment somehow (and a promise is a promise). Why not just buy a hemp wallet instead, you say? To make Jimi a bit more interesting, you can remove the included money clip (because who really needs one of those inside a wallet?) and replace it with a specially-designed insert that will hold 2 SD cards and 2 SIM cards. Comes in this aqua color as well as magenta, orange, smoke and clear finishes. Goes for about $14.95.

Hey Al, you can find the Jimi Wallet and other less boring presents in the Gizmodo Gift Guide or just pick up a Jimi Wallet here.

See you, Jimi! [T3]