Wallet made from Atari cartridge
Niles sez, "Here's a video introducing the Atari wallet, a project I've just completed after almost five years in the making. I repurpose original Atari 2600 video games into wallets using every original piece inside except the screw."
Atari wallet - Pac Man introduction (Thanks, Niles!)
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Incredibly awesome... except for the magnetic closures, which don't do nice things to your credit cards
Incredibly awesome- except for the magnetic closures. Magnets and magnetic-striped credit cards don't mix.
Didn't Mythbusters do an episode on what it takes to erase a credit card strip? I recall that they had to make some beyond-ordinary effort to erase the info.
Moving to the desert works quite well. Those coriolis storms are brutal on the Amex card.
Though I really like anything made out of videogames or in a videogame theme, these wallets are way too expensive. If you go to the artist's website and then his store, he's selling these wallets from $40 to $80. I could buy old Atari games for $3 at the local flea market and make my own with some magnets and wire for less than $10.
Not worth the price he's charging.
Don't forget to take pictures. We'll be waiting.
five years in the making?!
oh wait, he must mean five PAC-MAN years!
which, if we use the 12-second "falling in love" sequence from ms. pac-man (and then wildly assume that it takes the average human couple a mean of 3 months to really fall in love), we can extrapolate the meatspace stoichiometrical equivalent, using the following formula:
12 seconds/3 months = x/5 years
=so it took the dude about four minutes to make this.
bravo!
i keep my wallet in my back pocket like most male human beings and i think sitting on an atari cartridge all day would be bad news for my ass and pacman.
these wallets are awesome! (and durable). i am a front pocket man myself and the atari wallet is perfect for me.