If you need something small, lightweight and indestructible, Timbuk2’s Lightweight Launch Backpack ($129) might be right up your alley. The pack, constructed from famously tough Tyvek, can fit a 13″ laptop comfortably and plenty else. At only 18L, it sounds small, but due to its drawstring-top design and large main compartment, it holds more than […]
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Bag Week 2018: Why I still love the Peak Design Everyday Backpack
Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. […]
View More Bag Week 2018: Why I still love the Peak Design Everyday BackpackBag Week 2018: Mission Workshop’s Radian rolltop starts simple but grows piece by piece
I’ve always been wary of modular, rail-based bag systems. They’ve always struck me as rather military and imposing, which I suppose is kind of the point. Even Mission Workshop, whose other bags I have always enjoyed, put out one that seemed to me excessive. But they’ve tempered their style a bit and put out the Radian, a solid middle ground between their one-piece and modular systems.
View More Bag Week 2018: Mission Workshop’s Radian rolltop starts simple but grows piece by pieceBag Week 2018: The Nomadic NF-02 keeps everything in its right place
Nomadic, a Japanese brand sold by JetPens in the US, makes some of my favorite bags and backpacks . The Wise Walker Toto was an amazing little bag and I’ve always enjoyed the size, materials, and design. The $89 Nomadic NF-02 is no different. The best thing about this 15×7 inch backpack is the compact […]
View More Bag Week 2018: The Nomadic NF-02 keeps everything in its right placeBag Week 2018: Waxed canvas bags from Filson, Ona, Croots and more
If you’re looking for a good jacket or bag, you have your choice of materials: leather, heavy nylon, waterproof synthetic weaves like Gore-Tex… but for my money (and not a little of it either) the king of them all is waxed canvas. Pliant yet protective, wind and water–resistant but breathable, handsome to start but grows […]
View More Bag Week 2018: Waxed canvas bags from Filson, Ona, Croots and moreBag Week 2018: Chrome’s MXD Pace Tote is the perfect little hybrid backpack
I admit I was a little reluctant to try this pack out, but in the end it was my favorite of the Chrome bags I tested for TechCrunch Bag Week 2018, perhaps not coincidentally, one of the least Chrome-like. If you’re familiar with Chrome’s bike messenger bag roots, the Pace feels like an abrupt departure, […]
View More Bag Week 2018: Chrome’s MXD Pace Tote is the perfect little hybrid backpackBag Week 2018: Chrome’s BLCKCHRM Bravo 2.0 backpack is a burly, stylish beast
If you needed to pick a bag to have your back in a street fight, you should probably choose Chrome’s Bravo 2.0. I tested a version of this pack from the company’s higher-end BLCKCHRM line. The BLCKCHRM version of the Bravo 2.0 replaces the normal pack’s 1050 denier nylon exterior with a slightly rubbery, Navy-grade material […]
View More Bag Week 2018: Chrome’s BLCKCHRM Bravo 2.0 backpack is a burly, stylish beastReview: Chrome’s Vega transit brief makes your work commute a little less uncool
You’re either a Chrome bag person or you’re not. And if you’re not a Chrome bag person, it might be time to give the newly Portland-based bag maker another look. I’ve been a fan of Chrome Industries bags for a long time, but over the years I’ve only owned two: the discontinued Mini Buran, a […]
View More Review: Chrome’s Vega transit brief makes your work commute a little less uncoolBag Week is coming and we need your recommendations
Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags – often ignored but full of our important electronics – are the outward representations of our techie styles and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. To that end we need […]
View More Bag Week is coming and we need your recommendationsGM and Cruise reveal their fourth-generation, steering wheel-free Cruise AV
GM and Cruise are making progress on their plan to deploy autonomous vehicles on roads for the public: Today, it’s showing off its fourth-generation Cruise Autonomous Vehicle (AV), which comes just a few short months after it first revealed its third-generation vehicle. The fourth generation car is production-ready, according to GM’s Dan Ammann, who discussed the new vehicle on a… Read More
Solar-charging backpacks let you power up while on the go and these are some of our favorites
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Complimentary tote bags are killing us slowly, quietly, one by one
Among America’s unforgiving recycling elite, no bag is more universally revered than the almighty canvas tote bag.
Once a demonized member of the bag community, the canvas tote has risen to prominence in recent years as a socially conscious sustainab…