San Francisco Designer, Jake Ehrlich wanted to get rid of his wallet once and for all without compromise, but couldn’t find an iPhone wallet case that could achieve this goal, so in 2010 he began designing the first SAFE WALLET for iPhone 4.

Jake’s original idea was to create a great looking, comfortable iPhone case that was like a miniature VAULT or SAFE. This pocket safe had to be lightweight and able to hold and protect all his valuables, including all his necessary wallet contents and keys. He dreamed about leaving home everyday with only a skinny iPhone wallet case in his pocket. Ever since Jake made his first prototype he has continued to refine his original SAFE WALLET concept. This Design section offers insight into:

• What makes the SAFE WALLET so Safe.
• The power of the built-in MagicStand.
• The future of convergence which you can achieve today.

SAFE WALLET is like an actual safe—as it protects your iPhone from drops as well as keeping your wallet contents SAFE from prying eyes. There are two styles of wallet cases. The first type intelligently conceals your wallet content, like the SAFE WALLET pictured below on the left. The second style foolishly exposes your wallet contents when you are talking on the phone or texting as pictured below on the right.

iPhone cases that expose your wallet contents are not smart. They’re stupid! They’re also potentially dangerous, as they senselessly make you an easy target for snatch-and-grab thieves. If you’re thoughtlessly walking around in public with your wallet ‘on-parade’ next to your head or in your hand with exposed credit cards and cash, it makes you an easy criminal target. .

Wallet cases that have a folio style flip-around cover are not only idiotic and ugly, but very awkward to hold up to your ear to talk on, as well as being highly un-ergonomic. Also, if you keep your iPhone in a folio/book style case, when your phone rings or text messages come in, you can't even see notifications or who’s calling or texting without having to open the akward cover flap every single time. If you want to do something so simple as check to see what time it is, you have to open the folio door every time. If you think about it, folio cases are highly nonsensical.

“Keeping your iPhone in a folio style case results in a false economy of motion. Covering your screen and exposing your wallet contents is about as efficient and intelligent as trying to wear two left shoes.”

—Jake Ehrlich, SAFE WALLET Designer

SAFE WALLET is the exact opposite of a folio style iPhone case. Instead of concealing your screen from you, it conceals all your wallet contents when you talk on the phone or text, thus making it the much safer alternative. Also, SAFE WALLET intelligently keeps your iPhone screen highly visible and easliy accesable at all times.

Apple recently introduced their first wallet case (for iPhone X) which is seen below in the screen-shot from the online Apple Store. The 'iPhone X Leather Folio' retails for $99, which is the same price as the SAFE Wallet. It appears Apple designed their wallet folio case so it might completely cover your credit cards and cash when talking on it, but the fact the user looks like they are talking into a Day-Timer folio is still ridiculous. The SAFE WALLET is light-years more advanced than Apple's first attempt at making a wallet case for iPhone.

Apple offers their super-innovative Apple Pay, which is awesome, but they realize people still need to carry ID, a drivers license, and credit cards—as Apple Pay adoption is not yet ubiquitous. We’re probably about a decade away from having all our wallet contents digitized into our smartphone. Ironically, even Apple CEO, Tim Cook reportedly got shut down trying to pay for a cup of coffee in Sun Valley with Apple Pay, and had to whip out his wallet.

All BulletTrain SAFE WALLET models feature a built-in MagicStand that allows you to effortlessly stand up your SAFE Wallet in portrait or landscape. Portrait mode is great for viewing notifications while standing up on and flat surface like a desk or bedside table. Landscape is great for watching videos or video conferencing on Skype or Facetime.

The SAFE WALLET MagicStand works remarkably well as a tripod or flashlight stand, so if you need task lighting in a dark room you’re always prepared.

The SAFE WALLET landscape mode is great for watching YouTube videos, or movies as well as for Skype video, or for children watching cartoons.

The SAFE WALLET MagicStand landscape feature is shown above, which works on many surfaces like carpet or on a bed. If you want to use it on a really slick surface like a tabletop, you can flip the SAFE WALLET over and slightly stick out your credit cards, which will lock out the SAFE WALLET and keep it standing up in the ideal video watching position as seen below.

When you use the built-in MagicStand, you will be suprised by how well it works and how many different places you can stand up your SAFE Wallet for watching video.

The Tesla Model 3 and SAFE WALLET were practically made for each other and go together like peanut butter & jelly. The BulletTrain SAFE WALLET is the ultimate convergent device as it let’s you completely replace and get rid of your wallet. If you have keyless doors at home or at the office, this brings you a step closer to perfect convergence. The Tesla Model 3 is the first car to use Bluetooth to replace a key fob. In other words, if you have a Tesla Model 3 and a smartphone you are one step closer to benefiting from perfect convergence.

Modern Bluetooth is very safe as it has never been compromised, so it’s safer than having an actual key-fob. With the purchase of a Model 3, Tesla also includes two black cards that look like a Tesla credit card, but they’re NFC enabled cards that can lock and unlock the Model 3 as well as start the car. The Tesla Model 3 NFC card fits and works perfectly with the SAFE Wallet.

So basically, if your Bluetooth is off, or your iPhone battery dies you can walk up to your Tesla Model 3, and swipe your SAFE WALLET just above the door handle, and it will unlock the car and let you drive it. This combination delivers 100% on the dream of the technology age, which is to leave your home every day with just your SAFE WALLET, and of course it will still have plenty of room for all your wallet essentials. Complete convergence has finally arrived!