GeekDad Review: Ekster Parliament Smart Wallet With Tracker Card

Looking for a cleverly designed smart wallet? Once that’s really smart-as in not just minimalist and RFID blocking, but also virtually impossible to misplace? Ekster has some great options. The company recently sent me its Parliament wallet, complete with a Bluetooth Tracker Card, and I have to say this is definitely a smarter way to be carrying around plastic…

Start With a Minimalist Wallet

Ekster’s Parliament wallet is a bi-fold design, with maximized storage in a compact form factor. And it’s clad in top grain Dutch/German leather in a choice of colors (my review unit is classic brown). Measuring 0.4 x 4.1 x 2.5 inches when folded, this has a significantly smaller footprint than my current minimalist wallet and is about half the thickness. Despite that compact size, it holds up to 10 cards.

Several of them are held in traditional slots. But the secret to this wallet’s capacity is a hard-shelled slot into which you can insert another handful of cards (between four and six depending on whether they’re embossed). They disappear inside and are held securely-I tried but couldn’t shake them loose. And they also can’t be bent. Of course, now you can’t see the cards. But at one end of the Parliament is a spring-loaded button. Push it and the stored cards are pushed out…