Here’s a great idea gone wrong. Take the piggy bank. A staple of American childhood that has taught us how to save for a rainy day. You put money in and don’t take anything out until it’s full. Enter the ATM bank. It’s a fully-operational ATM and will keep a tally of how much money you put in. Need to make a withdrawal? It comes its very own debit card so you can take out cash for fat sack of buds. I really don’t see today’s generation of children saving money with a bank like this.

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Sometimes a bland leather wallet just isn’t enough. That’s why people come up with ideas like the Crossword Puzzle Wallet. You might not write on it but it’s totally solvable. #47 is Manual, #54 is Eliot and that’s all I got; I need help. That’s alright though, as you can expect to hold on to this wallet for as long as you’d like making it a much longer crossword puzzle game than the Sunday paper.

Once you’ve completed it, the wallet still has the power to hold your money and plastic but has lost its touch of originality. If only the puzzle could change daily.
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If you’ve ever signed up for a bank account or Paypal account online, you’ve probably noticed how they deposit a small amount of change into your checking account for verification purposes. It’s usually under 50 cents and doesn’t amount to much. But what if someone programmed a way to automate the enrollment process with these sites and used false names to generate multiple accounts

That is exactly what one Michael Largent from California did. Largent set out to scam Google, E-Trade, Paypal and a slew of other companies for their cash. In the end, he ended up netting over $50,000 from verification deposits. If he hadn’t used false information, Michael wouldn’t be facing wire fraud charges. Currently, he’s free on bail and there’s no word if he has been ordered to pay the money back.

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Are those credit cards pileing up in your wallet? Well, first off, you probably shouldn’t have that many cards, but if you insist, there might be something to come to your rescue. The iCache lets you register your credit cards online so that all of those credit cards can stay at home. The iCache keeps your card info secure (of course) through its fingerprint reader which allows the company to boast that the iCache has “biometric data security”. So really, how does it work when you go to make a purchase? It stores all of the magnetic strip data onto the device and rotates through them depending on which ever card you so choose, and then drops the data when you switch to another. You don’t have to worry about your AMEX card getting stolen after you decide that Discover would be better at a particular store. Another nice feature is that you don’t have to pay extra when you use the iCache at a retailer. It’s just like a normal credit card! So go ahead, ditch all of your old plastic. — Nik Gomez

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