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Just stumbled across a little article about a wallet made of stainless steel so that it can protect your newer credit cards from Radio-Frequency hacking.

So i did a bit of research and it seems that this is possible and even had a slot on Mythbusters but discovery pulled the episode when credit card companies had discussions with them. Radio Frequency Identification more commonly referred to as RFID is also used in tracking shipments of goods etc, they comprise of 2 parts, one part being the antenna and the other is an integrated circut.I've posted some links below if you're interested, The first link is to a google search of RFID, the second is to the orginal article that sparked my interest, the third is a google groups discussion where you can watch a video about the mythbusters bit and the fourth is a wiki link on RFID.



http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&r ... RFID&meta=
http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/04/06/sta ... el-wallet/
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.new ... 421fac2cc5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID