Niche Gadgets: 2010

Do you bored with old style wallet? Almost all of them are look alike. And some good-looking ones are really expensive.
As a geek, you might want to use your wallet to express yourself. Or choose the one that 'really' suits you. In this page I put some interesting wallets and put them in categories. Hope that you will like this.

1.Wallet for Nerds

Cool graphics or elegant designs have no effect on nerds! If only things that can strike your mind are numbers, texts or elements... these are for you.

2.Unique Wallet

Sometimes extreme things can be awkward. We just want to have something 'different' right? All of the following items can be perfectly used as normal wallet while they surely got some notices.

3.Food-like Wallet

These wallet is obviously for eat geeks! Of course that they won't look exactly like food so much as you want to give them a bite, but if you want to show your favorite dish, go ahead.

All products presented in this page are available at various online stores. If you have some suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment.

As a computer geek who always want to use portable software anywhere and anytime, I still cannot forgot the day that I had to carry mini-CD in my wallet. Planning to fitted as much as possible application into 185 MB to made all-in-one CD was very, very exhaustive task and what a got from my hard work is to tore up my wallet because mini-CD is still didn't "mini" enough.

to keep many portable software inside billfold, mini-cds was the only way
but now it become inconvenient

Even though many people feels comfort to buy those typical USB flash drives, some would rather use tiny ones. Choosing these special designed flash drives gives many advantage :

- You can put it in your wallet and go anywhere you want without worrying you'll forget it.
- It requires little additional space. Thus, you'll feel more comfort to bring it around.
- Small weight make it's more durable when dropped.
- Small size allow another USB devices to be attached on its adjacent. This is especially crucial for closely-packed USB ports of some PC.

There are many type of these super-portable USB flash drive, Thus I will introduce some of them to you.

1.Thin stick type

This type is the most ordinary style for the ultra small USB flash drive and maybe the most useful too. Due to its simplicity, there are a lot of manufacturers that produce them and also many choices for us. Capacity normally range from 2 - 32 GB and the weight hardly exceeds 0.4 ounces, many colors are available.
All of them can be mounted into normal USB slot, easy to use and have same price as typical flash drives. Feel free to choose one of them!

2.Credit card type

These are reincarnation of credit-card-shaped CD. They have, of course, far higher capacity (up to 64GB) than their ancestors plus ability to rewrite. They are also got higher capacity than "thin stick type" due to its larger size.
Please be noted that each wallet has different size of credit card slot. It'll be sad story if you buy one of these but it can't be putted into your wallet. Always check the dimensions first!

3.SD combo type

It may be surprise but there are many Secure Digital (SD) cards with buit-in USB connection. They have ability to connect to devices with both SD and USB. Transfering pictures from camera to computer was never be easy like this. The cards can also be used as regular SD cards, but without carrying card reader anymore.
While these flash drive certainly small enough (because they're actually SD card), the capacity is somewhat limit at 4 GB. However, they're still worth for trying.