Wallet

I went digging recently for another minimalist wallet and boy did I find one. My old one, two pieces of titanium attached with a rubber band, was getting too old…

The Trayvax Element is a minimalist wallet for the paranoid beer-lover

Things are going incredibly well for Ledger these days. People find bitcoins, ethers and other cryptocurrencies exciting again. And the French startup just raised a $7 million Series A round…

Well howdy, partner! How’s your Django app deployment going? Jackson Wayne makes leather goods with a decidedly old-timey, pre-WWII/post-Pony Express bent. Founded by a former lawyer, Andrew Lynch, the style…

Jackson Wayne makes a messenger bag for time travelers to the Old West

If you have an iPhone other than the 6 Plus or 6S Plus, chances are that you run out of battery pretty frequently. In a world where background updates, location tracking,…

This leather wallet has a built-in battery to charge your iPhone

The increase of smartphone ownership in India is fueling the rise of mobile wallets in India. One company leading the charge, MobiKwik, has topped up its own funds with a…

India’s MobiKwik raises $50M for its mobile wallet service

Yoyo Launches Mobile Wallet In The U.S.

9:15 am PST • December 21, 2015

UK-based mobile wallet app Yoyo Wallet has quietly brought their mobile payment technology to the U.S. and has been stealthily rolling out services with select partners in a private beta. The company…

Yoyo Launches Mobile Wallet In The U.S.

Apple just introduced a few new updates to the Apple Pay service at the WWDC conference in San Francisco. Alongside adding your usual debit and credit cards, Apple Pay now…

Apple Rebrands Passbook To Wallet

The Internet of Things promised us a deeper connection with our objects. We would be hugging our toasters, marrying our fridges, and sleeping with our bathroom scales. But nothing out…

The Woolet Is A Wallet That Yells At You When You Leave It Behind

When I leave my home, I check that I have three things: keys, wallet, phone. How long will it be until the first two are obsolete? My wallet has only…

When Will Your Phone Replace Your Keys And Wallet?

Just ahead of Apple Pay’s public release, a top credit card provider, Capital One, has rolled out a new mobile wallet app for cardholders that will work with Apple’s forthcoming mobile…

Capital One Debuts A New Mobile Wallet App, Designed To Work With Apple Pay

In an effort to help widen bitcoin’s reach and create a simpler experience when dealing with the online currency, KryptoKit, makers of the Bitcoin wallet browser extension, launched RushWallet, a…

KryptoKit Launches RushWallet: An Instant, Cross-Platform Bitcoin Wallet

Amazon’s first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play. However, the…

Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet

In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet. More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment…

Square Market Partners With Coinbase To Accept Bitcoin

Lemon, the makers of the mobile wallet by the same name, is today releasing a new mobile payment tool whose goal is to allow the app’s users to make purchases…

With Launch Of Lemon Network, Wallet App Maker Lemon Prepares To Take On PayPal, Google, Venmo & Others

BillGuard, the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 runner-up offering credit and debit card users protection against fraudulent charges, is today formally announcing its integration with Lemon’s digital wallet application. The integration…

BillGuard Teams Up With Lemon’s Mobile Wallet, Will Alert Users To Fraudulent Charges

Wallaby Financial, a startup that’s building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when charging purchases, has just closed a seed…

Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card

Facebook just acquired Acrylic Software, a Vancouver, CA-based startup that developed two desktop and mobile apps: Pulp, a personalized newspaper app for Mac and iPad, and Wallet, an app that…

Facebook Acqui-Hires Mac and iOS Developer Acrylic Software

As we predicted yesterday, Google has just announced the official launch of Google Wallet. Google Wallet, if you recall, allows you to pay for products in the real world by…

Google Wallet Goes Live On Sprint, Visa/Discover/AmEx Support On The Way
Hardware

Return To The Flipside: The Flipside Wallet 2X

10:46 pm PDT • October 20, 2010

Back in September of 2009, I was sent a wallet to review. I’d been in the market for a wallet, and while this one wasn’t the color I would have…

Hardware

Nooka "Asset Organizer" seems like a bad wallet

11:20 pm PST • February 11, 2010

Sorry Nooka, you’re probably not going to like me much. Looking at the pictures of this wallet, I see several issues. First off, it’s made from silicone rubber. Two words:…

Hardware

TMT wallets look strange, should show up on 24

10:30 pm PST • January 19, 2010

Wallets are becoming more and more functional these days. We told you about the Flipside wallet before, but here’s one that takes it to a whole new level of ridiculousness.

I love my home state for a number of reasons, but this is just one more reason why Oregon kicks ass. Portland, OR-based clothier Nau’s billfold wallet is perfect for…

Hardware

FlipSide Wallet goes 2.0

3:00 pm PDT • July 10, 2009

Carlos Deleon first told you about the FlipSide back in January and the fine folks from the revolutionary wallet company have informed us that they’ve gone 2.0. The RFID blocking…

Hardware

Cassette wallets

12:12 pm PST • January 30, 2009

As we enter the final year of the aughts, we need something new to show off how retro we can be. Duct tape wallets are so 2008. Hello Kitty is…

Behold! The future! I suppose this might work with any relatively large-screened phone, but let’s use the iPhone as an example. A guy in the Netherlands has scanned all of…

Let’s face it, RFID has had a lot of hype in the past four years, but has failed to find its way into our everyday lives and pocketbooks. Case in…

If Andre the Giant wants us to be able to open our beer wherever we are, who are we to say no? The guys at Obey Clothing have put together…