This RFID-blocking Smart Wallet has the most Satisfying Opening Mechanism

Posted on 20/02/2024 by Vincent Nguyen

Select a card from the Shuffle Wallet, and it’s no surprise if it evokes the familiar feel of a deck of playing cards. The concept of the Shuffle Wallet resonates widely, given the universal experience of playing cards, adding a touch of brilliance to its conception. When Stephen’s co-founder Jack asked him how he came up with the idea, his simple response, “It was an accident,” made me chuckle. He said this while wearing a neck brace. While I like minimalist wallets and shuffling cards, will combining the two make for a great form and functional wallet? Let’s explore further and discover why this product is the perfect solution for the most personal accessories you carry daily.

Designers: Jack Yao & Stephen Ng

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The Shuffle Wallet is cleverly designed as an ideal solution for those looking to simplify their lives and protect their cards, especially those with NFC chips, from unwanted scans. Consider a common situation that I’ve experienced, where I’ve flustered my children in front of their friends by fumbling through cards and old receipts to locate the Starbucks card when treating them to drinks at Starbucks. While this may have only lasted seconds, it felt mortifying to a teenager with their friends watching. Another costly example where the Shuffle Wallet could have saved me time and money occurred during my visit to Tokyo. When riding the subway there, you must retain your exit ticket. Otherwise, you’re required to pay again if you lose the ticket. This situation becomes even more problematic when riding the bullet train, where the ticket price can exceed $80. These instances underscore the shortcomings of traditional wallets, and it’s these everyday inconveniences that the Shuffle Wallet aims to eliminate.

The Shuffle Wallet is thinner, classier, and more fun than your thick leather bifold

The Shuffle Wallet, created by the innovative team at Mobile Pixels, stands out for its practicality and elegant design. It includes a unique opening mechanism reminiscent of a deck of cards, which allows you to easily browse and select one of the six or eight cards (if you use the silicone pouch). The quick-draw slot provides swift access to your most frequently used card.

Your cards fan out in a satisfying way, allowing you to easily pick the right one every time.

This feature isn’t just about speed; it’s also a security measure designed to keep your cards securely in place, preventing them from accidentally slipping out. It also comes with a sleek money clip for those who prefer to carry cash, providing a minimalist yet organized way to keep your bills secure and accessible.

The creative features of the Shuffle Wallet continue with its unique opening mechanism. It also incorporates RFID-blocking technology. This feature provides a secure barrier to protect your cards from potential digital theft, ensuring your sensitive information is safe from unauthorized RFID scans.

The Shuffle Wallet is entirely RFID-protected, so digital scammers can’t scan your cards without your permission!

RFID blocking creates a barrier or shield around your cards that operate using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. This technology is commonly found in credit cards and passports, allowing information to be read wirelessly via radio waves. While this provides convenience, it also opens up the potential for unauthorized access or theft of sensitive data.
An RFID-blocking feature, like the one integrated into the Shuffle Wallet, prevents this unauthorized access. It uses materials that interfere with radio waves, making your cards ‘invisible’ to a scanner and securing your information.

This feature is crucial because digital theft is becoming increasingly common. Criminals can use portable RFID readers to steal information from your cards without you even knowing. The RFID-blocking feature in the Shuffle Wallet protects your cards against such potential digital theft, ensuring your sensitive information is safe from unauthorized RFID scans.

Want to share your contact card? The Shuffle Wallet has a built-in NFC business card that lets you share with a tap.

Networking is essential for everyone, from new graduates to accomplished entrepreneurs. That’s why the exchange of contact information must be swift and efficient. The Shuffle Wallet offers a perfect solution that combines convenience and technology. This innovative wallet features an NFC chip inside a silicone pouch, allowing you to embed your digital business card. You can easily share your contact information with a friendly tap of the wallet.

Recognizing the diverse needs of its users, the Shuffle Wallet offers a range of optional accessories to enhance its utility. An AirTag holder is available for those who want the added reassurance of being able to track their wallet, a feature that merges technology with peace of mind. For added convenience, there’s also a flashlight attachment with two brightness levels, a keychain capable of holding up to 10 keys, and a multifunctional credit card tool that includes a range of tools from a screwdriver to a bottle opener, all designed to be TSA-approved for trouble-free travel.

The wallet also provides an optional non-RFID silicone pouch for those who need quick access to specific cards without RFID protection. This is especially useful for items like subway passes or gym cards, which you might need to swipe or scan frequently.

Frequently used cards can sit in the Quickdraw slot, allowing you to instantly access them in under a second

The Shuffle Wallet is available in two durable materials: aluminum, which weighs 4.7oz, and titanium, weighing slightly more at 6oz. The aluminum version is offered in various appealing colors, including neon black, polar ice, gunmetal, and diesel green, while the titanium version showcases the sleek, raw beauty of titanium. Despite its compact size of 4.25 x 2.44 x 0.5 inches, the wallet is designed to be functional and stylish, with an aluminum keychain extending to 9cm in length.

From a broader perspective, the Shuffle Wallet provides more than just a storage space for your money and cards. It is a thoughtfully designed accessory that blends security, style, and practicality, catering to individuals who prioritize efficiency and grace in daily life.

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What if your Wallet Was an Accessory to your Smartphone?

Posted on 29/10/2018 by Sarang Sheth

The title makes quite a design trigger, right? The wallet has existed for centuries, whereas the smartphone is all of a decade old. However, it didn’t take long for the smartphone to overtake the wallet in terms of being the most important thing in your pocket. The wallet now, has a chance to re-invent itself instead of play second fiddle to the smartphone, and the Wallor 2.0 wallet is just that.

A wallet so advanced it literally has me rubbing my eyes, the Wallor 2.0 doesn’t just store your belongings. It tags them, tracks them, and allows you to use augmented reality to locate them. Sufficiently advanced for its time, the Wallor comes with incredibly slim trackable stickers that you can place on your cards and other belongings. The Wallor app on your phone allows you to exactly see where your belongings are through the display on your phone. These paper-thin sticker tags can be used on items that are easy to misplace like cards, keys, USB drives, or even more precious items like your passport or keycards.

Aside from tracking your belongings, the Wallor 2.0 comes with the ability to track itself as well. Fitted with a GPS tracker, the Wallor is instantly trackable internationally, allowing you to get the whereabouts of your wallet pretty much anywhere in real-time. You can instantly know whether you’ve left it at home, or in a restaurant or a cab, and even monitor its location on your phone with live updates. The reverse works too. Since the wallet and phone are bound together using Wallor’s app, you can simply press the lion insignia on the wallet to summon an alert sound on your phone, helping you find your phone, instead of having someone else call you up to get your phone to ring. The wallet comes with Bluetooth 5.0, allowing you to be notified if your phone or wallet are away from each other. Leave either of the objects and walk away and they both buzz to let you know the Bluetooth connection between them has broken.

As if this enormous feature list wasn’t enough, the Wallor also packs a detachable wireless-charging power bank in it. When fully charged, this slim battery pack sits cleanly inside a dedicated slot of the wallet, and can be used to charge your phone. Simply placing your phone on the charger begins the power transfer, and the battery can be removed from the Wallor to be used independently too.

Designed for all needs, the Wallor 2.0 comes in four different sizes. A card-holder variant for the sleek EDC lovers, both vertical and horizontal bi-folds for the traditional-at-heart, and a travel-sized wallet for the jetsetters (that can even fit your passport into it). Each Wallor 2.0 is made from smooth, tough, scratch-resistant Nappa leather and even has RFID-blocking materials built into it.

Clearly built to pair well with your smartphone and your smart-life, the Wallor steps up the wallet’s game, giving it abilities far beyond the capabilities of current wallets. With the ability to track belongings, detect your phone, charge your phone, and even beam its own GPS coordinates from anywhere in the world, the Wallor 2.0 isn’t just your regular wallet. It’s a hybrid piece of EDC that revolutionizes the way you carry your items, the way you make your payments, and the way you live your smart-technology-powered life!

Designer: Viorel Cretu

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Wallor 2.0 is the world’s smartest wallet with real-time global GPS tracking. From left to right is the cardholder split, bifold horizontal & travel wallet.

Wallor 2.0 also includes tracking tags for ALL your valuables.

And more!

Real-time Global GPS Tracking

You can easily track exactly where your wallet is and where it has been with their state of the art mapping system. The GPS works worldwide, in real time, so you’ve got peace of mind wherever you are. You’ll be fear free, no matter if you live in New York, London or Sydney.

Free Data Plan

When you need to find your phone, simply press the Wallor button on your wallet and your phone will sound an alert, even if it’s on silent.

Tracking Tags

Your Wallor tags let you track anything you want. They’re durable and thin enough to apply to almost anything you can’t afford to lose: your cards, keys, passport, and everything in between. Pair your tags with your wallet, connect them to the app and you will know exactly where your stuff is in seconds.

Wireless Charging and Detachable Power Bank

Every one of their wallets comes with an integrated wireless power bank. It’s lightweight and completely detachable so you can pass airport security without being forced to throw away your smart wallet.

Augmented Reality

The AR takes your experience to a whole new level. No more running late when you can’t find your keys. And no more headaches when you can’t remember where you left your gym card. It’s child’s play with Wallor. Literally. Scan the room and find out the exact location of your valuables through our state of the art AR technology.

Wireless Charging Dock

Every wallet comes with a minimalist, compact, fast charging dock you can use for both your Wallor and your smartphone. Depending on the usage, the wallet itself has a long battery life of around 20-30 days and fast-charges in only 1 hour.

Bifold vertical wallet.

Travel wallet.

Card holder split wallet.

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Here’s Why We’re Going Gaga Over the World’s Slimmest Smart Wallet

Posted on 27/10/2018 by Sarang Sheth

Every decade, the world experiences a breakthrough product that revolutionizes the entire world. In the 2000s, it was the iPod, in 2010s it was the smartphone, and people believe that the next breakthrough product came a little early, with the smart-speaker in 2014. However, if we’re to look at that timeline of innovation moving from a decade-to-decade system to just every four years, we’re due for our next innovation in 2018, right?

2018 is the year the wallet turned smart. With payments going digital, and physical currency becoming more and more of a rarity, the wallet is all set for a reinvention as the second most personal and valuable item on your person, after your smartphone. Your wallet holds your cards, and in turn your finances as well as your identity, so a basic, thick, bulky bi-fold will simply not do anymore. Wallets need to be sleek, handy, secure, stylish, and most importantly, trackable. The Ekster 3.0 is quite literally all those things.

At a mere 0.4 inches thick, the Ekster 3.0 can hold cards, cash, and even a GPS tracker that lets you locate your wallet using your phone. It comes with space to store as many as 12 cards, featuring an engaging trigger mechanism that allows the cards to instantly pop out of the wallet for you to pick. The wallet even has a dedicated RFID-blocking space for an additional 6 cards, as well as an elastic band to hold any banknotes you may have. The hard-case and leather-clad design give it a stylish yet tough framework, which means that the Ekster will never bulk-up, like other leather wallets.

In a hidden compartment at the back, the Ekster 3.0 houses its tracking device powered by Chipolo. At just 2 millimeters thick, the tracker is virtually the size and shape of a credit card, and sits right inside the wallet. With a connectivity range of 60 meters, and the ability to provide worldwide GPS tracking, Chipolo’s tracker ensures that your wallet will never get lost… only misplaced. The tracker comes with 2 months of battery life and even a ringer that allows you to trigger an alert sound on your wallet, helping you locate it. The newly-developed state-of-the-art tracker is even compatible with Google Home and Amazon Alexa, allowing you to tell your smart-speakers to ‘call’ your wallet for you when you can’t locate it. Chipolo’s tracker even comes with solar-charging for absolute ease of use and charges in 3 hours (giving you almost 20 days of battery per hour charged).

Having raised over a million dollars in 2015 for its first iteration alone, Ekster is indicative of a trend that wallets are now shifting into the smart-industry… and now in its third iteration, the Ekster 3.0 may just be exactly what the world needs. The slim, trackable, stylish, and most definitely desirable smart wallet!

Designers: Rick Scharnigg & Olivier Momma

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Ekster® 3.0 is the world’s slimmest smart wallet.

Trackable worldwide. It comes with a solar-powered Crowd-GPS tracker. This ultra-slim tracker only needs 3 hours of sunlight to last 2 months and allows you to ring your phone or wallet as well as track in on a map.

Quick card access. With the integrated card-slider mechanism, you’ll have everything you need right at your fingertips. One click of the trigger and your 6 most frequently used cards are ejected for easy access.

RFID protction. It protects you against the growing risk of electronic pickpockets. The RFID protecting technology in these wallets protect your cards from wireless skimming and private data theft.

Ultra slim. Starting at 0.15″ (0.38cm), it is officially the slimmest smart wallet on the market. The even slimmer tracker slips easily into your wallet, not taking up too much space, disguised as a card.

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The wallet that’s smaller than your cards!

Posted on 15/02/2018 by Sarang Sheth

Great things come in small packages. That’s what they say… and they’re probably referring to the FOCX Smart Wallet. Simple, sensible, and small, the FOCX ticks all the correct boxes. Designed to be a tiny, square-shaped object when not in use (which means its packaging is smaller too), the FOCX smart wallet comes with an elastic band that expands to hold as many as 5 cards. You can easily access your card of preference by simply pulling up an elastic tab that lets your most-used card slide out from the pack. Put the card back and the elastic tab retracts too, back into the wallet’s slick form factor. The FOCX even has a clip on the side that can hold another 5 cards or cash, serving as not only a cardholder but a money-clip too.

Made from a combination of Leather, Elastic, and Yarn, the FOCX feels natural as it employs only the materials fit for their purpose. Speaking of purpose, the FOCX, within its incredibly compact frame, even fits an NFC chip (with 540bytes of storage) that can be an incredibly handy feature, allowing you to store contact details, or work details, or even your business card. Simply tap your wallet on someone’s phone to share your website or your business card with them!

For a wallet as small as the FOCX, it packs in a great deal, both in capacity and features. I’m a personal fan of the NFC technology that allows the wallet to hold an infinite variety of information. Who needs to have a slot to store business cards when your wallet is in itself, your virtual business card!

Designer: Serkan Elbasan

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