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WaterField’s new Field Tote was designed for men, but women will like it too

San Francisco based WaterField Designs recently announced their new Field Tote which has been designed with a casual style that will also fit into professional settings. The Field Tote is constructed of water-resistant waxed canvas with full grain leather accents. The bag is light weight and can be rolled up and stored in a larger […]

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Keep your gear close at hand with a Paxis backpack

By Julie Strietelmeier / August 16, 2015 / News / Backpack, Bags, Camping, Outdoor Gear / 5 Comments

Backpacks are a must have accessory when hiking and camping. They are constructed to let you easily transport all your important gear while exploring the great outdoors. But one of the main problems with traditional backpacks is that you have to take them off in order to get access to your stuff. Paxis has designed

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WaterField Designs launches PERALTA, a new women’s line of bags

By Julie Strietelmeier / August 11, 2015 / News / Bags / Leave a Comment

Popular San Francisco based bag and accessories maker WaterField Designs has recently created a new line of bags designed especially for women. The new line is called PERALTA and will start out by offering the Balani Backpack, the Etta accessory pouch and a leather key tether. The backpack which is made here in the USA

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Jill-E laptop backpack & camera insert review

By Ryan Chapman / August 6, 2015 / Reviews / Bags, Camera gear, Laptop backpack, Laptops and Gear / 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I went on an exciting road trip cross country to move my sister from Nebraska to Washington. I had to fly back and then ride with her and my mother in a full car, and I knew I could not bring a big backpack full of stuff like I normally do,

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Save space with TUO: the ultimate travel undergarment organizer

By Dennis Moore / August 5, 2015 / News / Bags, Crowdfunded, Travel Gear / 1 Comment

I love traveling with my family, but detest packing for a stay away from home. I like having everything neat and orderly; unfortunately, packing a suitcase is akin to solving a Rubik’s cube for me. Even if I manage to pack everything away nice and neat, my suitcase usually is a disaster by the time I

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It’s back to school with the Minecraft Creeper Backpack

By Kathleen Chapman / July 28, 2015 / News / Backpack, Bags / Leave a Comment

Get your kids excited about going back to school with the Minecraft Creeper Backpack. Girls and boys love the game and can now take a part of it with them to school. This officially licensed backpack is made of 100% polyester, is water resistant (it should be washed by hand), and has three compartments: the

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Peak Design’s Everyday Messenger Bag Kickstarter campaign raises over $1M in 4 days

By Julie Strietelmeier / July 27, 2015 / News / Bags, Messenger bag / Leave a Comment

Messenger bags are my favorite style of bags because they are casual, don’t fall over when you set them on a flat surface and can hold all my gear with room to spare. Thousands of other people must also like messenger bags because Peak Design’s Everyday Messenger Bag Kickstarter campaign has already raised over $1M

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Your goods won’t get all wet with the Matador Droplet Wet Bag

By Larry Geisz / July 26, 2015 / News / Bags, Travel Gear / 2 Comments

When traveling, I like to have light versatile products to use when I am out and about touring. While I almost always carry some sort of bag or sack for souvenirs or goodies, they are not waterproof or do not offer a waterproof storage area. The Matador Droplet Wet Bag can solve that issue, it

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WaterField introduces new Vitesse messenger bag

By Julie Strietelmeier / July 26, 2015 / News / Bags, Messenger bag / Leave a Comment

Messenger bags are my favorite style of everyday bag because they can pretty much hold everything but the kitchen sink you need them to. If you’re as much of a fan of WaterField bags as I am, you’ll be interested to know that WaterField has recently introduced their new Vitesse messenger bag. The bag is

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SOI automatically lights up the interior of your gear bag when you reach for something

By Julie Strietelmeier / July 25, 2015 / News / Bags, LED Light / 2 Comments

The German designed SOI bag light is a great idea for people who carry large gear bags, backpacks or tote bags. It’s a 3 x 1 inch disc shaped LED flashlight that you keep in your bag. When you stick your hand in the bag to retrieve an item, special proximity sensors can tell when

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Lifeworks Voyager backpack review

By Dennis Moore / July 18, 2015 / Reviews / Backpack, Bags, Laptops and Gear / Leave a Comment

When I travel, I have several gadgets I bring with me. For the past few years I have been using a beat-up backpack I purchased a decade ago, before tablets and smartphones were commonplace. While my old backpack got the job done, it wasn’t built to organize and contain today’s modern devices. I’d been looking

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Razer Tactical Gaming Backpack review

By Larry Geisz / July 16, 2015 / Reviews / Backpack, Bags, Gaming Gear / 3 Comments

If you are a serious PC gamer then you have probably heard of Razer products. If you are not a gamer, Razer is the maker of high-end PC gaming systems, gaming peripherals and accessories for not only PC games, but also for console gaming systems. Having a gaming laptop is great for portability, but what

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Keep Pursing KP Sling Bag review

By Julie Strietelmeier / July 14, 2015 / Reviews / Bags, Crowdfunded, Shoulder bag / 6 Comments

Keep Pursuing’s new KP Sling Bag is a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that launched today for what they are calling an Everyday Adventure bag. I call it a cross between a wallet and a messenger bag because it’s designed to be part of your EDC – Every Day Carry.

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Shelfpack is the ultimate suitcase

By Dennis Moore / July 4, 2015 / News / Bags, luggage, Travel Gear / 3 Comments

Whenever my family and I go on vacation we run into the same problem; there is never enough room in the hotel dresser to store all of our clothes. There are four of us and we usually end up “fighting” over who gets enough drawers. Inevitably, clothes end up scattered in drawers, in suitcases, and

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Attach a patch with PatchPALS

By Andy Jacobs / July 2, 2015 / News / Bags, EDC, Gear / 3 Comments

I’m a big fan of rucks (AKA backpacks), bags, pouches and other gear that utilizes webbing for customized, modular attachment. And since I’m also a big fan of Velcro-backed morale patches, PatchPALS by RuckWorks caught my eye. Elegant in its simplicity but clever in its function, it’s basically a strip of Velcro with four wing-like tabs

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Toffee Cases Mini Leather Bag review

By Janet Cloninger / June 24, 2015 / Reviews / Bags / Leave a Comment

When you don’t always need to carry a laptop and don’t even always need to take a tablet, it can be hard to find a single gear bag that works for you every day. I almost never need a laptop with me, but I often want to take along my iPad Air 2, so I’m

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Baggizmo aims to be the only everyday-carry bag a man needs

By Janet Cloninger / June 22, 2015 / News / Bags / 6 Comments

The folks who created the Baggizmo (and its Kickstarter project) want you to think about how you look when dressed nicely for a meeting with your client, and then replace that polished image with how you look for that meeting after you loaded up your pants and jacket pockets with all your daily-carry gear. Ladislav

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Case Logic Ibira Backpack review

By Smythe Richbourg / June 14, 2015 / Reviews / Backpack, Bags, Laptop bag, Travel Gear / Leave a Comment

Recently, I moved back to having a MacBookPro again. I had moved to an iMac, since most of my mobile stuff was being done on the iPad. Then work got me a second iMac for a lab/testing machine, and my desk got too crowded. But, of course, that means I now “have” to have a

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Colonel Littleton No. 2 Shave Kit review

By Dave Rees / June 8, 2015 / Reviews / Bags, Leather case, Travel Gear / 1 Comment

I travel a great deal for work and pleasure (aka when my wife drags me on vacation). Much of that time away from home spans more that just a few days and is usually pretty hectic. So, remembering everything and staying organized is critical for making the time away from home go smoothly and stress-free.

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Give Dad the gift of an organized gear bag for Father’s Day

By Janet Cloninger / June 4, 2015 / News / Bags, Organizer / Leave a Comment

Cocoon Innovations, famous for their Grid-It organizer panels, offered a 20%-off discount on a gift for Mom for her day earlier this year, and now they’re doing the same for Dad. If Dad already has a bag he loves, give him a Grid-It panel; their overlapping matrix of elastic bands let him fit everything from flash

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