Small Subgroup of a Small Subgroup Posted Thu, 16 Nov 2006

With the new Charlie Card coming out, it seemed like it was about time to obtain an RFID blocking wallet. I liked the idea of buying a nice off-the-shelf wallet but the only pre-made RFID-proof wallet I've found is made of leather. I'd like to buy a vegan wallet.

Here is the Venn diagram describing my problem:

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If you know a wallet for those of us in the purple zone, leave a comment or let me know. Otherwise, I suppose I'm going to have to make my own.

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Remind me to trick you into eating wads of beef if you ever come visit UC Berkeley.
Posted by Joshua Kwan at Sat Nov 18 06:30:08 2006
I too am part of the small subgroup of the small subgroup! I trust you will let your readers know what solution you choose.
Posted by Ted Percival at Sat Nov 18 07:38:26 2006
How about http://www.ducti.com/ ?
Posted by Matti Pöllä at Sat Nov 18 09:19:28 2006
Matti, I don't see where on the Ducti site that it says that wallets block RFID. Maybe I'm being dense or lazy...
Posted by mako at Sat Nov 18 12:57:48 2006
Sorry, my bad. Ducti wallets don't have an aluminium lining.

Looks like 3 million Britons could also use an RFID-blocking passport cover..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1950226,00.html
Posted by Matti Pöllä at Sat Nov 18 20:12:55 2006
I think given the fact that many vegans tend to be political, the overlap of pink and blue would be bigger than a sliver. 

That said, I too have need of a such a contraption.  Maybe someone could pitch the idea to thinkgeek.
Posted by h0mee at Sat Nov 18 22:22:42 2006
one good thing for potential manufacturers: the people who are actually in that tiny sliver (which includes me) are more likely than the average person to be able to afford a premium-priced wallet.
Posted by britta at Sun Nov 19 06:47:05 2006
http://www.veganwares.com/ may be able to do something up... they do rather nice vegan wallets (where I've gotten mine from) - although haven't had to go the RFID proof one yet.

they may do a custom order though - they do for shoes.

in my city too - so we could get the LUG guys down there and try things out too.
Posted by Stewart Smith at Sun Nov 19 08:52:08 2006
btw - you're not the only one in that purple zone there. Probably going to be needing a passport holding case that's RFID proof in the next few years too - I luckily just missed out.
Posted by Stewart Smith at Sun Nov 19 08:54:33 2006
Stainless steel, anyone?  (If you have $95 to blow on a wallet...)
https://id289.securedata.net/stewartstand.com//merchantmanager/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=2&products_id=6&mmsid=3c58c2d823da03936d2baa56e6f91437
Posted by lk at Sun Nov 19 13:55:05 2006
As someone who has has a Vegan wallet I think you also need to add the circle for "People Not Interested in Velcro Wallets"
Posted by Jeff Luszcz at Sun Nov 19 17:14:37 2006
DIFRWear is putting together a Vegan Friendly wallet!

Give us about a month, it takes us quite a bit of effort to introduce a new material.

Thanks,
  Mike Aiello, Founder DIFRWear
Posted by Mike Aiello at Mon Nov 20 08:30:47 2006
I've been thinking about this too, and the thing that keeps coming to mind is the cigarette case (with built in roller) that my friend Malcolm Robertson carries his Chesterfields around in.

I wanted to show my wife what it looks like, so I did a google image search, and lo and behold:

http://www.kyledesigns.com/c=*/product/WALLETINFO

These folks seem to be selling stainless steel cigarette case wallets.

-mark
Posted by Mark Jaroski at Sun Nov 26 05:55:05 2006
There are now vegan wallets for sale at DIFRWEAR!

Thanks go to Mike Aiello who read this post and responded to the desire. You can order yours at:

http://www.difrwear.com/purchase.shtml
Posted by mako at Sun Apr 1 20:47:21 2007

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