MIT Artificial Magic Wallet, Suitable For Shopaholic

MIT researchers design a wallet that can understand the financial condition of its users. Not everyone can put the brakes on their impulsive desire to shop.

However, now it can be overcome by the presence of three magic wallet made by the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

With purses called Proverbial Wallet, users can more easily control their spending, because the purses are designed to be able to know the financial condition of the owner.

The first wallet purse called Bumblebee, is a purse that is equipped with a vibrator. Purse will vibrate each time the account owner of a wallet that was changing. Every time the financial transaction occurs, the wallet will know about it.

He could vibrate with the resonance pattern can be programmed. Even he could also be set to warn of fraud attempt, when the wallet trembled in the absence of a purchase transaction.

Meanwhile, another wallet-called Peacock, can inflate or deflate along with the financial condition of the owner.

The Mother Bear wallet model can be opened or closed in accordance with the financial condition of the owner. It was equipped with a hinge connected to the Internet and know the position of the bank account owner.

When the money the owner is still thick, still easily open the wallet tesebut open. Meanwhile, when the financial condition had been reduced, then the wallet will be increasingly difficult to open, 'forcing' the owner of the wallet to be more frugal.

Purses are connected with the owners bank account data via an Internet connection, via Bluetooth signals emitted by mobile phones. This platform utilizing microprocessor embedded in the wallet. But it also requires an application embedded in mobile phones.

From the data input from the internet about the account owner's wallet, then this system will issue commands to the vibrator or motor output hinges on the wallet.

"This is a way to make something that has no physical properties, such as bank accounts, could be felt physically,''said Henry Holtzman, research director who designed these purses.

Most importantly, these purses are expected to make money the owner can be more 'durable' and in control.