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Credit cards don’t mean much these days. For awhile they were so easy to get and use, despite your financial situation, that they have become a second currency, albeit a worthless one. Made using thousands of credit cards, freecards, discount carts and gift cards, the Credit Card Rainbow displays the varied colors of debt, in all of its majesty.

Commissioned by Graphic Design Museum in Breda, the Netherlands, the rainbow will be on display until September 2009. So, this is how worthless our credit system has become. But hey, at least it’s pretty! Close-ups after the jump.

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Have a spending problem? Recession got you in a pinch? Go grab your wallet and your iPhone and I’ll teach you how to kill two things with one stone.

Grab two credit cards from your wallet, preferably the two that still need to be paid off. Good, now get some scissors ’cause you’re cutting these fuckers up. Follow the instructions from TheCase’s Flickr gallery and you’ll have a portable, wallet-sized iPhone stand in no time. No longer will you have to get your hands all sweaty while watching a movie; just whip out your stand and throw down. And your debt? Well, you still have to pay that off but at least now you won’t acquire any more of it.

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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

iCache [via CrunchGear]