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Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

z-large-13_3_5Apple Pay concept is great, but we still need to hold traditional wallet items: ID, driver’s license, credit card, social security number, and sometimes cash. Did you know that 43% of all identity thefts are obtained through a stolen wallet. There has been a need for innovation in the personal wallet industry for a long time. One way to keep your wallet safe is ensuring that no-one else can get access to its contents. That’s the idea behind iWallet, created by Steve Cabouli, a man who had his wallet stolen at a busy airport and decided to come up with a solution to help prevent our information from getting into the wrong hands.

The iWallet is a hard case wallet with a biometric reader system that allows you to open it only when it recognizes your fingerprint. It also incorporates an electronic Bluetooth connection that can be paired with a mobile phone to alert the user when the wallet is separated by more than a 10 feet away.

Screen Shot 2014-11-04 at 5.49.13 PMThe iWallet is a high-end technology wallet that comes in three models. One made with 100% carbon fiber and two others made with 100% carbon fiber with Kevlar. You can purchase one straight from the company’s website.

What Sparks Our Fire: A high tech wallet that protects our most valuable information from the wrong hands.

Are you ready to take your leather wallet into the 21st century with the iWallet?

iFitness

So you may have to wait on that iWatch for a while.

Apple seems to be focusing the efforts of its’ wearables on the fertile health and wellness markets. Over the past few years, Apple has hired health and wellness experts, and currently is seeking fitness app and hardware developers. In conjunction with reports that the new iPhone will support biometric readings, the next iteration of Apple products seem to be headed in a healthy direction. For instance, a design for a headphones embedded with biometric sensors was recently patented, and are able to track heart rate and body temperature.

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Therefore, it only stands to reason that Apple is going to keep the iPhone as the center of it’s mobile universe and create gadgets and accessories that enhance and specialize the existing functions of the phone.

What Sparks Our Fire:  No one needs a Google Glass yet, but everyone needs to enhance their iPhone. This may be the smartest strategy in the mobile gadget game.

What kind of fitness apps or tools would you like to see from Apple?