I haven't tested it, but it's better than nothing, right? And much cheaper. I've a few cards, so I bought two (different colors). For those also in Toronto, you can pick them up at the Umbra showroom off Queen and John. For everyone else, there's Amazon, local stores...
That said, when I looked at this project, I saw it as something I wanted -- not for fraud, for personal convenience. I'm sick of carrying so many cards. I was like, crap, I only have Visa in my wallet, I wonder how hard it'd be to add PayWave support? Right now my hopes lie in rumoured iPhone 6 support of NFC which might in turn encourage global adoption of phones for payment ... and perhaps with one-time credit card numbers, right? One can dream...
SilentPocket-style cases also blocks wifi/3G/4G, it's much better privacy than simply blocking RFID/NFC. Preventing pervasive monitoring of cell phones is their target.
The transmission power of your phone is adjusted based on how well your phone can talk to the cell tower. The harder you make it for the phone, the harder it tries. That translates into a sizzling hot phone in your pocket that has a battery life of one hour.
>Preventing pervasive monitoring of cell phones is their target.
It doesn't matter what they think their target is. They're making the devices not cell phones anymore. Maybe you want to be unreachable, but I highly doubt you want everyone you call/text to also be unreachable.
I haven't tested it, but it's better than nothing, right? And much cheaper. I've a few cards, so I bought two (different colors). For those also in Toronto, you can pick them up at the Umbra showroom off Queen and John. For everyone else, there's Amazon, local stores...
That said, when I looked at this project, I saw it as something I wanted -- not for fraud, for personal convenience. I'm sick of carrying so many cards. I was like, crap, I only have Visa in my wallet, I wonder how hard it'd be to add PayWave support? Right now my hopes lie in rumoured iPhone 6 support of NFC which might in turn encourage global adoption of phones for payment ... and perhaps with one-time credit card numbers, right? One can dream...