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Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Over at Digg, user detour99 points to a page of Oakley computer cases and labels it “If Jack Bauer made laptop bags . . .” He adds:
These rock-hard laptop bags from Oakley would appear more at home dropped into a war-zone rather than carried on the bus. They do however score a high amount of […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Here’s a stylish bag for men inspired by the medical bags doctors used to carry back in the days of housecalls. At $650, though, the Medico Bag from Qara appears to draw equal inspiration from more recent medical trends, like the skyrocketing costs of health care.
The Medico Bag comes in rich brown “Vintage Vitelo” or […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? How about just world history? Plus maybe biology, English, and that humongous calculus textbook, too?
Ah, the pleasures of lugging big fat schoolbooks in an ever-expanding, droopy backpack. Someone please explain to us how it has come to this: In the age of digital documents, email, IM, […]
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Posted in Laptop Bags, Manufacturers, Backpacks, Wheeled Bags, Bookbags, Carry-On Bags | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
We’ve heard from man-purse enthusiasts employing the bag-in-a-bag strategy. But here’s a bag that appears to do all the fancy inserting for you: The Chrome Messenger Backpack.
It’s like a bag within a bag. The independently suspended weatherproof liner freely floats within the outer shell eliminating seams exposed to the outside elements. Your cargo is safe […]
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
We know what you’re thinking: The commando option is a bit rough, isn’t it? Who doesn’t have time to unplug a few cords from his laptop before shutting down?
The great divide, then, is this: How carefully do you wind your cords?
There are plenty of cord-management options for earbuds. You can find CAT5 or Ethernet cables […]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Here’s a quick quiz. When it’s time to pack up your laptop for a short trip — say, to go home from a cafe, or to take it to work, are you more likely to:
A. Shut down the machine, carefully unplug the power supply and any attached peripherals, then fold and tie all cords, inserting […]
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Posted in Commentary, Man Bags, Laptop Bags, Manufacturers, Backpacks, Bag Contents, Bookbags | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Tumi says today’s featured bag has “the styling of a messenger with the organization of a computer brief.”
We’ve noted a hybrid bag from Tumi before. We’re not exactly sure the T-Tech Pulse Eldridge Computer Messenger Bag breaks any new ground — who hasn’t stuffed a notebook computer in a messenger bag, with or without a […]
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Posted in Messenger Bags, Man Bags, Shoulder Bags, Laptop Bags, Manufacturers, Wheeled Bags, Briefcases, Details | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Speaking of 24, over at Yahoo! Answers a reader named Miss D writes in with a query:
If Jack Bauer is so badass, why does he carry a murse?
Twenty would-be wise guys try to explain. Including Dave, who lays it out:
That’s where he carries all his whoopass. Sometimes he has so much of it, it spills […]
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Posted in Commentary, Messenger Bags, Man Bags, Public Image, Shoulder Bags, Military Bags, Role Models, Bag Contents, Gadget Bags, Electronics, Law Enforcement Gear | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Looking for the canvas messenger bag carried by Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland’s character on TV’s longest-running week-long show, 24?
According to our visitor logs, so are a lot of other people. We don’t get it. What, exactly, is the virtue of carrying a man purse identical to that of a fictional, independent, go-it-alone secret agent? So […]
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Posted in Messenger Bags, Man Bags, Public Image, Military Bags, Marketing, Manufacturers, Role Models, Gadget Bags, Law Enforcement Gear, Survival Gear | 25 Comments »
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