Anti-RFID Wallet

I acknowledge that a similar Idea is already posted, "Full Metal Wallet" (see link). However, the reason for this is different than the reason for the other, and so is the construction method.

In case you don't know, the latest versions of U.S. currency is being equipped with RFID tags (see link). Big Brother wants to watch you, of course (I suggest that citizens get their own RFID detectors, to watch government officials, of course). People who do not want to be tracked by the cash they carry obviously need an Anti-RFID Wallet.

Any metal container will do, of course, to deflect the snooping radio waves that can activate and cause an RFID tag to respond. A portable metal money-container that is comfortable in your pocket, however, is another matter altogether.

Here we note that different metals have different amounts of ductility and corrosion resistance. Gold is best at the first and close to best at the second -- and in fact actual cloth woven from fine gold fibers has been created in centuries past (see link), and probably is still available today. So, it should be very possible to constuct a wallet from cloth-of-gold, which will have anti-RFID properties and be comfortable in the pocket, too. Not to mention that the idea of a gold wallet to hold cash just seems naturally appropriate.

Still, gold is pretty expensive (and more so when finely worked), so what about using other metals for the cloth? Silver, copper, and aluminum, for example, are not horribly less ductile than gold, but their corrosion-resistance leaves much to be desired. Nevertheless, if threads are made from any of these metals and are immediately protected with some sort of coating (gold electroplate?), they might then be woven into useful and less-expensive cloth, for an anti-RFID wallet.

In the future carbon nantubes might also be made into a workable radio-deflective cloth. VERY interesting material, those nanotubes....