What’s this? A phone case pretenting to be a organizer pretending to be a wired phone?
a metal wallet with a bunch of lanyard loops?
What even the fuck is it? A phone? Just a case for a phone? Some sort of new bullshit wallet?
Is it AI generated or an actual tech bro’s re-invented wheel?
it’s a high tech wallet promoted by YouTubers, the metal frame grinds through your pants and car upholstery, it’s a feature.
also it provides easy access to your credit card PIN in case someone steals it
i used to have this wallet. it’s a wallet with a metal frame. it’s not very comfortable to carry. i bought it after searching “most durable wallet” and getting one of those seo bullshit ad sites before i knew better in 2018
I use a duct tape wallet. Simple. EZDIY. Lasts pretty long (not forever), and easily replaced/repaired.
Hobo. So hot right now.
You can even repair it with duct tape and nobody would be the wiser!
Clever
Doesn’t the adhesive get everywhere?
Is it sticky?
Not if you make it right.
Why do you need an extra durable wallet?
Do you have extreme pockets, or something? Fill em with rocks?
What is there to even break in a wallet?
i’d just worn out a wallet after a couple years and was working my first job and wanted something that would last. the old wallet had worn out in the crease of the bifold
Some sort of new bullshit
Yes
Another tracking device for us human cattle, that we buy ourselves. Probably a wallet, if not some AI generated crap.
“THIS IS A (bs overexpensive dumbass gadget for suckers) BLA PHONE 22XTS IN OUR ANTIDROP CASE!!!”
Jumps off a cliff
fucking dies
It will be when it bursts into flames 👍
It will be when it’s 19:71 o’clock (look closely)
That’s the year you came from and the year you’re going to.
It’s obviously a Time Machine.
That’s the date duh!
19th day of the 71st month.
I’m pretty sure it’s 19 weeks, 71 seconds
You don’t want an AI generated non-descript thing?
Actually, it might not even be AI generated. Just a non-descript thing.
I have seen AI gadgets in clickbait ads.
Cool-looking cubes with lots of controls and stuff, but with meaningless symbols and “words” for labels.
It reminds me how influenced I am by advertising, that I kind of want something that doesn’t exist or have a purpose, just because it looks gadgety.
It is the promise of mystery, discovery, unknown functions that could end up being truly fascinating. The less clear the workings of a device at first glance (down to some minimum threshold), the more it evokes that sense of wonder and curiosity.
True. Part of me still wants a Nokia N90 just because it hinted at so much functionality when I first saw it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N90#/media/File:Nokia_N90_Camera_flickr_178946625.jpg
I’m reminded of a few projects I’ve seen here and there where a dad with some electronics skills builds a control panel for his kid with a bunch of knobs, buttons, lights, switches, gauges, displays etc. that makes suitably impressive industrial noises as you mess with the controls because what kid doesn’t want that? I want that.
It’s not AI generated. I’ve had this wallet for like 3 years now.
So… what is it? Lol
I literally said “I have had this wallet for 3 years”. It’s a wallet. You keep credit cards and cash in it.
But why male models?
Asking the tough, hard-hitting questions
What’s a wallet? What’s “cash”?
But what is it!?
Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.
The brand is Dango. My mom gave it to me for gift a few years back. I don’t know the model. I checked their website but it doesn’t have my color config anymore.
It’s a bifold leather brown with silver metal. The one they have now is brown and gray metal.
🤷♂️
Looks like it’s from Dango, based on the design elements: Dango Products
I put the OP image in a reverse image search and found the product and brand in about ten seconds.
Dude doesn’t want anyone to see his wallet. Or this is a /hailcorporate.
Why would a hailcorporate be reluctant to name the product? It feels a little Catch 22, because if they’d instantly named it that could also be interpreted as hailcorporate.
Bait and switch. Bait you with what you saw, but hey, “look at this product over here!” The thread is almost a direct copy of how AI slop would pull you in. Show you “You’ll never believe this cool thing!” you click on it because it is cool looking, but it redirects you to a site selling similar items but not the cool AI fake thing.
I like it actually.
Yea it’s been fine. Sometimes putting cash in the clip Is PIA but otherwise it’s fine. I like the heft it has with the metal parts. 🤷♂️
show us a picture then. or reply when people ask you what it is with a name and brand.
of course people think you’re full of shit when you don’t reply to them with anything but vague bullshit
It’s a wallet you dumb bitch.
Lol George Costanza ass wallet
cries in sciatica
Yeah great work you stumpy fingered vague dickface, you finally did it.
hell yeah, I love lemmy
'tis a lovely place
The one in the screenshot has a digital interface, which it made it look like a phone cover but it’s way too small to be a phone cover.
I honestly think the image is AI generated and it’s just based on a wallet.
That honestly looks more like the front of a credit card (or similar card shaped things) than a digital interface.
You went from like 0 to 100 on the antagonistic tone over someone saying they owned a wallet.
0-100?
pfft, fucking amateur. I’m easily at level 7000, on the metric antagonalytical scale.
Which is like 13,231.9 imperial.
Those are rookie numbers, I’m over 9000
yeah but that’s imperial.
Looks very similar to Dango, they have a bunch of similar metal framed, leather bound wallets.
TY! finally someone with a link
Are you buying it for yourself or as a gift?
neither, just wondered if it was real.
it’s a silly ass design for a wallet imho
What is that? It looks interesting but it also might be an AI image of something that doesn’t exists
Edit: what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet? I thought it was some kind of rugged electronic thing
what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet?
EDC being everyday carry, tactical at this point has lost any real meaning - pants with a few extra pockets, this wallet, any knife you might take outside of a kitchen, a water bottle holder that you can attach to something, anything that they put those little loops that are normally on military backpacks (actually there’s another example, all those “EDC” backpacks that are 150 bucks).
You ever scroll down to the bottom of a news article and see the dozen or so clickbait ads with weird (and very frequently ai generated) images designed to make you go, tf is that?
Those are called chumboxes
I used to be called that when I worked out the adult toy store! Oh, wait, you said chumbox. I was way off…
Visiting a news site without an adblocker
At this point news sites look like the TV from idiocracy. There is not a force in the world that would force me to visit one without at least three digital condoms.
three digital condoms
Funnily enough, three real condoms are less effective than one.
If you’re asking in earnest:
EDC - “Essential daily carry,” just a loosely defined but also self-explanatory term. My keys are part of my EDC, so is my wallet and my pocket knife, because I use them every day so I carry them with me.
Over the past few years, the EDC community has formed a little cottage industry where things aren’t EDC because they’re carried every day, they’re EDC because they say they are and they’re designed to be that way. The term “EDC” evolved then into describing a specific type of object. Tactical here is just a marketing term here to appeal to some kind of utility beyond a normal wallet
Hope this helps. Can’t believe I wrote all that on my lunch break about an obviously AI picture
I always heard EDC means EveryDay Carry
yes, me too. edc pocket knife par examplé … like the one you carry every day … first time im hearing essential daily.
I don’t think I’ve carried a wallet in about 5 years. I just have my phone in my pocket, if I need to buy something I just use my phone.
I wasn’t entirely earnest. A more precise question would be “why the fuck an EDC tactical wallet”
Because tacticool
I’m disappointed that I haven’t yet seen an EDC picture that features a buttplug.
Cowards
This maybe? https://www.dangoproducts.com/collections/all-wallets/products/t01-tactical-wallet I saw mentioned that Dango is the brand.
I’m convinced this is AI. If you assume the wallet folds at the back, there is no way to get your card out. Also they have stitches and bolts presumably into a metal plate, but you don’t stitch into metal. Fake
It might be real, just bad. The stitches might just be holding the folded rim of the leather, while the bolts might be holding the leather onto the metal. Still, the bolts look small for the purpose.
Just the picture made me cum!
Is it just me or does the long thingy on it look like a turd to anyone else?
It’s not just you
I always love these AI generated “interesting looking objects”.
What we have here is some plastic, aluminum or pot-metal frame with a piece of obviously fake suede screwed to it with undersized screws so that it’ll rip off at the slightest provocation. It then has some sort of shitty OLED display crammed inside of it for…reasons?
It’s a Starbucks gift card not an oled screen.
Seems the product, ore one variation of it is called “Dango M1 MAVERICK”
It’s not fake lol. I’ve had one for like 3 years now.
This can only mean one thing: you’re a bot!
I’m definitely going to tie that “tactical” rope (I know there is a more official name, can’t think of it) to my suit jacket pocket.
I think it’s called paracord, strong useful rope, and that is a cobra knot, which is a useful way to carry relatively a lot of rope in a small aesthetic package (but it’s a pain to undo/redo).
Practically useless for evey day use. I doubt anyone who ever bought one of those cobra knotted paracord in bracelets or keychain has ever used the rope in an emergency.
that being said, it’s the insecure male version of a friendship bracelet.
550 cord is great, and people should have some in their vehicle, or a pack while traveling.
The cords on stuff like the wallet bother me though because even with the space reducing knot, it’s a comically small amount of cord that’s almost purely a fashion statement. A significant amount of 550 cord on a roll, spindle, or just in a ziplock bag is far more practical.
I’ve known some outdoorsy people who’ve made their own 550 bracelets, but when it comes to storebought ones it’s pretty much 100% people that never go in the woods wearing them in my experience.
I kept one in my car and actually used it to tie down patio furniture while helping a buddy move houses.
I just wadded it up into a ball and put it into the trunk when I was done with it. Haven’t used it since tho.
paracord is useful.
i meant that no one uses those cobra knots. their are just decorations, I doubt anyone has ever untied it to get the rope back
…hottest regift this year
All the little screws give me Pareidolia
Pareidolia is seeing faces and other stuff that isn’t there. Do you mean trypophobia?
Maybe they resemble a very unusual face to this person.
Are you guys pulling my leg here?
isn’t coal one of the hottest gifts you can get on Christmas?
Depends. Is it actually ignited? Or, is it just sitting on its own somewhere?
Liquid Hot Magma
Hot Pocket guts
shove a cut grape in the microwave for high temperature plasma, but were losing the Christmas theme
I think plasma should just be one of the commonly accepted Christmas decorations, you know? Quit fucking around with those other, lamer states of matter and just give the people what they want.
instructions unclear, i decorated my tree with blood plasma
Quit fucking around with those other, lamer states of matter and just give the people what they want.
If it’s not a Bose-Einstein condensate, I don’t want it decorating my tree
What if it comes with a bag of thermite?
The one with a bag of plasma is a hotter gift
Couldn’t possibly beat the heat from the gift that came with a bag of plutonium.
