
Like Rushfaster, Bellroy is another Australian company, this one located in Glen's hometown of Melbourne. Bellroy's mission is "trying to improve the way we carry," starting with the wallet, an object whose design "has existed in a deep freeze for the last generation or two."

One of Bellroy's five solutions is the Slim Sleeve Wallet, which provides quick-draw access for your two most commonly used cards, then provides a pull-tab to access the less frequently used cards you stuff on the inside. As shown in the video, there's also a slot to hold some kind of funny little play money, I'll ask Glen what those are when he gets back to the office.
Check out the rest of Bellroy's lineup here.
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Check out the URL for really thin wallets. I've got a couple of them and love them. I wouldn't use any others.
Love the sleek and minimal look but still looks like a well designed functioning wallet
Regarding the "play money":
http://www.rba.gov.au/banknotes/counterfeit/security.html
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&q=1+AUD+in+USD
Play money? It's Aussie money man. Hahahaha! I ditched my wallet 4 years back and use tin a card holder. If I'm hauling around a lot of bills I bring a magnetic money clip. I'll never return to a wallet again.
I use a Dalvey leather card holder and money clip. Mine's looking the worse for wear after 8 years of use and abuse but it holds 10 cards (it's designed for 8 but stretches...) and some notes in a tiny, slimline package.
For those of you kindly informing the author that the "play money" is actually an aussie note... I think he's well aware.
If you come across some of that 'play money' again, please send it here. It buys more than that American dunny paper.
Change purse. Without a change purse, this wallet is completely useless to me - where would I store my loonies, toonies and other loose change? In my pocket? Where it falls out into the crevices of my couch or onto the floor, or out on the pavement? The wallet makers are all stuck in the past - even this one - our cash today involves a whole lotta change and as fast as I give it away, I'm constantly losing it.
Jason maybe you had better buy better pants...........
Does the shell have a metallic (maybe aluminized-mylar) lining?
In the future typical credit cards may become less common with the advent of smartphone mediated transactions.
But i think there'll still be lots of credit-card sized things you'd might want to carry like lenticular magnifying glasses, microSD card holders, LED flashlights and such, like a pocket toolkit.
I live in the US and love the Aussie plastic bills - but by the time we'll get around to it in ten years the technology will have probably already leapfrogged to near field wireless using your smartphone and some sort of government issued smartcard for "cash"...
A wallet without need for change IS the future.
Because it's the coins that are approaching their used-by date, not the wallet.
PS: Would be a good wallet if it also blocked NFC - scamming credit cards is way easy.
You cannot shrink the walllet withouth shrinking the cards or combining one card that does multiple functions. Who are you guys trying to fool
I use a slim biz card holder for my credit cards. Notes, I just fold them and put in my back pocket. Have been doing this for 2 decades. Any wallet that introduces more than 2 layers of non-content is NOT slim or minimalist.
PLAY MONEY? It will cost YOU $1.05 of YOUR money to buy ONE of OURS!!
One issue to keep in mind is that Aussies use coins far more often than Americans do. I believe Australia is up to $2 coins at this point while Americans rarely see coin values above 25 cents (fifty cent and dollar coins are in circulation in the USA but relatively rare.)
Coins, great for vending machines but a pain the hip in my American wallet.
They have slim wallets out already... "Big Skinny." Bigskinny.net
I beat the hell out of wallets and the one I have not only has repelled any type of moisture (short of it being dunked into water), but it's held up to quite a bit of abuse. I carry a ton of stuff and the wallet STILL remains 1/2" thick, no more. Maybe 14 cards, 10 USD bills, a couple of coupons and it still has room. Standard bi-fold. Had it for at least 5 years.
About eight percent of men are colour blind. About 2 percent of women also. Man's preference for black may be at play therefore - why have colour at all since I can't see it? But when you loose your black wallet, in a black briefcase with all the other black things, you'll realize the value of the contrast created by colour.
I like the Ryan Crabtree's Crabby Wallet found on Kickstarter version much better. Why is this guy getting so much press? He is old news.
"Play money"
Don't you mean some of the world's most advanced banknotes that are worth MORE then the USD?
LOL
haha an Australian having a laugh at the "Play Money" comment now that's our type of humor very well done there writer!! Our colourful money are the best!
Why are they using play money in the demo? Should use REAL bills...
You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Its a wallet. nothing has been redesigned.
The Emperor has no clothes
The wallet I use is a nylon All-Ett. These are made from Spinnaker cloth which is the same material used to make parachutes and sailboat sails. It is paper thin and amazingly strong. Even with 2 dozen cards, a cache of currency and a week of business trip receipts it is still far thinner than most wallets. If style is more important than function they also make thin leather wallets but their nylon wallet is the thinnest and longest lasting choice.
Am I the only one who doesn't welcome a shrinking wallet?
Are people really so stupid - they put their wallet into their jean's back pocket?
It is incredibly easy to pickpocket a wallet in a back pocket.
I need someone to design a wallet so I can put cards next to each other without corrupting them. I'm constantly having to call my bank to replace cards due to corruption or static damage. Or maybe it's just my magnetic personality! lol :)
Jan Altus.
Put cards in a wallet opposite ways up when next to each other.
One right way up, one upside down and so on.
That way the magnetic strips are more separated.
:-)