Gizmodo: wallets

Dot Matrix Wallet Smears Fashion All Over Your Sweaty Pocket

Mark Wilson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:40:00 EDT

We're not going to spend all day explaining why this dot matrix wallet is the best thing we've ever seen. If you don't know, then you are without joy in your life. And there's simply nothing we can do about it. However, as for its downsides, we're pretty sure there's not room for both your Visa and Diner's Club cards inside. So you'll have pare down a bit. Oh, and unlike other cult-y homemade-looking geek paraphernalia, this wallet is actually for sale for $17. [fredflare via UberReview]

Video: Cash Money Wallet to Hold Your Cash Money

Matt Buchanan — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:15:00 EDT

While you could always show off how hot and heavy your pocket is with a money clip force-fed with Franklins, why not go one step further and make your money-carrying apparatus out of Franklins? The guy in the vid uses dollar bills, but if you're ballin', you don't have time for singles. Or I guess to make a wallet out of hundred dollar bills. But you should. I have it on good authority that Bill Gizates rolls with a Wilson wallet. – Matt Buchanan

[via Geekologie]

Will Phones Replace Wallets?

Adam Frucci — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:00:00 EDT

According to Mike Elgan, the wallet is an endangered species. That's because phones are primed to become upgraded, more secure, and more convenient versions of the standard wallet.

He talks about things like the fact that credit cards are woefully inefficient in that they store a minuscule amount of data on a relatively bulky object and that the Near Field Communications systems already being put into place to handle credit cards as reasons that we may be saying goodbye to the wallet sooner than you might think. It all sounds pretty cool to me, as anything that can clean out my pockets even more is awesome. –Adam Frucci

Opinion: Why your next phone will be a wallet [ComputerWorld]

db clay Gaffer's Tape Wallets

gizmodo.com — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:31:03 EDT

Forget boring old duct tape wallets. The crew behind Portland accessories design company db clay handmakes gorgeous billfolds out of gaffer's tape canvas that they stencil, print and paint on. They currently have fourteen designs available; the two we like best are This Sky and Parking Lot, both $55 and both taken from photographs by Graeme Mitchell.

db clay wallets [via Fabulist!]

RFID-Blocking Wallet

gizmodo.com — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:40:15 EST

Are you super-paranoid about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and how it allegedly melts holes in your brain and compromises your security? Then this wallet is for you. Dustin Kirk got a bit paranoid about today's growing use of RFID in everything from credit cards (like Chase's new Blink card) to driver's licenses and alien UFOs, so he made a wallet to store things in a way that blocks RFID transmissions. Apparently, some foil from the local Super Fresh worked just fine, so he integrated the foil into his Duct Tape wallet design. The end result is a wallet that blocks RFID signals, was cheap to make, and is ugly as sin. Hey, it's your security, so go for it. But don't expect the end result looking like you got it from Banana Republic.

NEW RFID Blocking Wallet

The Sammy, A Titanium Wallet

gizguest — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:42:26 EDT

Holy Cats!... a Titanium wallet! You know what they say about luxury items: "Never mind needing... what about wanting?" Of course, by "they", I mean me, and by "say", I mean make up... What I'm trying to convolutedly get at, is that I can't figure, for the life of me, why anyone would need a wallet made from ".020inch 6AL4V Sheet Titanium, .040inch 6AL4V Sheet Titanium, 6067 Aluminum Bar Stock, Military Specification Extruded Aluminum Piano Hinge and Military Specification Aluminum Rivets". Nor can I understand why anyone would feel justified paying $340 for something that holds "three credit cards and three business cards maximum", plus a few green bills.

Not understanding all this doesn't stop me from wanting this creation from Gary Scott USA very badly, if only to impress/amuze/ridicule-myself-in-front-of the ladies with. -DP

The Sammy [Gary Scott USA via Luxist]