gear bags

It doesn’t matter if your everyday bag is a small gear bag or big enough for a 17″ laptop, you’ll find a bag at J. W. Hulme Co. that fits your needs.  They’ve been around for more than 100 years, making duffle bags, briefcases, and sporting and hunting gear.  They handcraft bags from fine leathers [...]

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Hokay, let’s be honest here.  I’m going to mention something and I want you to close your eyes and picture the first thing that comes into your head.  Ready….. Lap Tray, Stable Table If you’re like me the first thing you see in your mind is either an elderly person sitting on a floral couch [...]

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No matter what you’re doing – hiking, shopping, going to school or work – you’ll probably need a bag to carry your stuff, and you’ll need to give a thought to your personal safety.  iSafe Bags has just announced a waist pack with a personal security alarm built in.  They say the iSafe Waist Pack “is [...]

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Voltaic makes a line of gear and laptop bags with built-in solar panels, like this Generator Solar Laptop Charger. The bag is made of 600-denier fabric made from recycled soda bottles; the fabric is waterproof, lightweight, and UV resistant. Inside is a padded laptop sleeve that fits up to a 17″ MacBook Pro. Wire channels [...]

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard it said that the number one way to make yourself a robbery target while on vacation is to walk around with very obvious expensive camera gear.  That neck strap that has the brand name of your camera emblazoned across it in bright colors, and the [...]

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Timbuk2, maker of rugged, high-end messenger bags, has finally gotten around to addressing the needs of their photography-loving users with the release of their new Snoop Camera Messenger bag. The Snoop looks a lot like Timbuk2′s standard and laptop messenger bags, but includes a padded and removable compartmentalized insert that will hold and organize your [...]

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Levenger offers some gear organizer bags that are a cut above most organizer bags.  The Bradley Hold-It-All case is made of full-grain leather with a pebbled texture and nickel hardware.  In addition to the main zipper compartment, there’s a zippered pocket along the length of the front.  Color choices are black or espresso brown. Choose a [...]

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Shinnorie makes gear bags and cases that you can customize to make them your own.  They offer laptop bags, travel bags, and cases for small electronics in leather or nylon, all customizable to some degree.  Sometimes you can only choose the color, but sometimes you get to select size of the case and the colors for [...]

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Levenger has a new line of gear bag/laptop bag organizers.  The organizers are all made of nylon with blue zippers.  Shown is the Organizer bag.  The Organizer bag has a center compartment to hold a netbook, files, or books.  There is a variety of nylon or mesh pockets on the outside to hold electronics, cables, [...]

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Aerovation is among a small group of companies that has been certified by the TSA to manufacture and market approved cases that allow you to not have to take your laptop out for the trip through the x-ray machine. How do these bags work, and are they worth the effort? We’ll see.

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Austrian design company Urban Tool hopes so. I’m definitely not brave enough to wear one myself. People already think I’m goofy… If I’d showed up at my day job wearing one of these, I can only imagine the looks that I would get. But then, I live in smalltown USA. I do think the idea [...]

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Waterfield Bags, one of my all time favorite gear bag companies, has just announced the Muzetto Urban Man Bag. These bags are made of distressed dark Brown leather, with your choice of two sizes and 6 color accents. Guys like David Beckham, Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt have been seen sporting man bags, so [...]

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How much technology do you carry into the wilderness with you? Camera, GPS, mobile phone, paper map, plus the requisite trail mix bars, maybe a water bottle? Or do you go off the beaten path, with a full trek pack, keeping track of where you are with a local topo map, stopping to update your [...]

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