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!
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Got a license for that toy gun? That’s right – if this new law is passed, all items that look like a gun will have to be licensed:
ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.
Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could "reasonably be taken to be a weapon".
The draft act says an imitation is a "reasonable copy" of a weapon that is not capable of causing death or injury.
"If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed," said a government source.
"We just want to know where they are."
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Nikolaj Arndt, an artist in Germany, made this 3D rendering of a tiger on a sidewalk in the city of Geldern. It was apparently done for a local street art competition.
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This is an image taken by the Hubble telescope of a binary star system (named AFGL 3068) in which one star is a a carbon star, a dying red giant, which throws off material in which appears to us to be a spiral pattern. The explanation of this very strange star system is at Bad Astronomy. Link -via Monkeyfilter
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The roof of the reptile house caught on fire at the Poestlingberg Zoo in Linz, Austria. One species that couldn’t make a quick getaway from the billowing smoke were the four huge tortoises.
Quick-thinking firemen and zoo staff adapted oxygen masks designed for humans to save the lives of the 140lb African-spurred tortoises.
“We expect them to make a full recovery,” vet Isabella Eberle told CEN. “The masks were designed for human use but we managed to make them fit.”
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