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RFID-blocking Woven Stainless Steel Wallets: Bifold Wallet and Ladies Wallet
Are your credit cards betraying you? If you have RFID-enabled credit cards, identity thieves and blackhat hackers can steal your data straight out of your wallet (How easy is it? This Boing Boing TV episode revealed that all a hacker needs are about $8 worth of equipments!)
But never fear, the NeatoShop‘s got your back(side) with these woven stainless steel wallets from Stewart/Stand. The woven stainless steel – with threads three times thinner than the thickness of a piece of paper – creates a Faraday cage that block RFID-signals from ever leaving your wallet.
The wallet is a must for those who want privacy – plus, the woven stainless steel is soft like silk to the touch, safe for credit card magnetic strips and is darned sleek!
Check it out: Link
Holy Moley, it’s a wireless Rube Goldberg contraption. Nearness, a video by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall uses RFID chips to activate each step.
The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close.
Link -via Boing Boing
