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| These amazing"smart"wallets can change shape to stop you spending money.When the festival season draws __1__,it is __2__ to have no idea about how much you are spending.But now an inventor has solved the problem with a set of"smart"wallets. One of the wallets becomes small when your bank balance is too low in an effort to __3__ you from spending.The wallet becomes larger or smaller depending on how much money its owner has.Another has a hinge which becomes tighter and tighter to open when you have __4__ money.Once you have __5__ in your account,the hinge simply keeps the wallet shut. The idea behind all the wallets is that we need to __6__ ourselves each time that we spend our __7__ money rather than just paying with a credit card and forgetting about it. They are now at the __8__ stage.All the wallets have a tiny computer inside them and use a Bluetooth that __9__ to the users' mobile phones or the Internet and their bank account information.This __10__ that the information in the computer inside the wallet is changing __11__ how much money the user has,and can act accordingly. On his blog Mr.Kesmer,the designer,wrote that the wallets were __12__ to connect us with the money that we have left."We have trouble __13__ our desire to spend money.Sometimes we want to save money,but there's a gap between our decision and the final results.This gap is becoming increasingly __14__ as the money becomes virtual."When we're shopping,do we know what our bank balance is,or __15__we're overspending?Our existing senses are not enough to warn us. |
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