Stainless Steel Wallet: Smooth as Silk?
Published by travis September 14th, 2007 in Clothes. Share This
You might think that steel would be hard on your jeans pocket, but in fact these wallets have the texture of silk and are woven from micro fibers of stainless steel. When you touch the silky metallic surface you’ll think they were created by sophisticated nanobots… and almost nothing is more geeky than nanobots.
…not to be confused with duct tape wallets, which seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum. The wallet carries a hefty $80 price tag, with the card holder going for $20.
Stainless Steel Wallet [ThinkGeek]
5 Responses to “Stainless Steel Wallet: Smooth as Silk?”
- 1 Trackback on Sep 14th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
My duct tape wallet is still intact, and it rocks. It’s also a damn good talking point, since when people see it for the first time, they actually ask about it really being duct tape.
This wallet, however, seems like a normal grey wallet. Less of an icebreaker. But at least it doesn’t look like it’s going to fall apart at any moment…
Sounds pretty awesome. I’ve got a couple of questions:
1. Does the steel act as a Faraday cage around any RFID cards you may be carrying? Could be awesome or a pain depending on if you’re a convenience or privacy nut.
2. How would this do in an airport metal detector? I’m not really interested in getting a secondary rectal screening because my butt set off the metal detector.
Wired did a write up on this a month or two ago, looks pretty cool. They also went into the Faraday cage properties of it, sounds like just the thing for RFID enabled credit cards
A buddy of mine has one of these and it’s torn to shreds. For stainless steel, I’d think it’d be more durable (or durable-er).