Tag: WALLET

Having just finished a Switched office debate on whether Apple's camel-casing of its products (iPod, iPhone) has completely debased the English language, we stumbled across this piece of cra- amazing paragon of personal technology christened after the camel-case trend: the iWallet. The wallet itself is rather unremarkable, and the design is exquisitely bad. For starters, it's a hard-shell case ...

Sure, it might be a little more cumbersome than your current billfold -- but whatever -- this is awesome. This SNES cartridge has been modded so that it holds a photo ID on the front plate, but it's also been gutted of its internals and outfitted with a hinge so that there's storage space on the inside. Oh, and it's got an LED that can be powered on and off, plus it plays game music / noises! ...

With all the high-tech toys and gadgets we carry around every day, there's one thing that's always seems to drag us back to the twentieth century: the wallet. Whether it's made of leather or vinyl or even Tyvek, the wallet feels incredibly dated and often quite bloated-- especially when over-stuffed with faded and torn membership cards. It creates an unsightly bulge that's even more pronounced ...