Timbuk2's Dolores Cooler Bag Makes For the Best Bike Messenger Gig

Carrying a cooler full of Pabst into a job interview may seem like bad form, but hauling a twelve-pack in a Dolores Cooler shaped like a messenger bag is just the thing to show off your go-getting attitude. More »

Timbuk2 Commute 2.0 Bag Slips Your Laptop Through Airport Security Checkpoints

Timbuk2's Commute is my main bag, with the separate laptop compartment making airport security breezy—version 2.0 goes TSA compliant, so you don't have to pull your laptop out at all. Pricey at $120, like all Timbuk2 bags. [Timbuk2]

Burton iPod AMP Pack: Snowmodo Review

The Gadget: This Lumberjack Red backpack from Burton features a wireless Audex control system for your iPod while providing space for a laptop and whatever random gear you can cram in it. More »

Dealzmodo: Huge Timbuk2 Bag Sale

We love Timbuk2's bags—they're smartly designed to hold a ton of gear and tough enough to handle the serious, just-plain-wrong abuse we subject them to—but the price can definitely be off-putting. Luckily, they've got a huge sale going on through Sept. 22, slashing 35-65 percent off a buncha bags. A couple of picks: The Blogger bag is a sweet score for $52, several classic messengers for about $50, and some of the pricier ones are a good $40 cheaper. [Timbuk2]

Light Bags LoJack Your Handbag With GPS

Get a load of this racket. A company called Marilyn Light Bag has developed a series of purses equipped with a GPS tracker in the event that it is lost or stolen. A device, the product page claims, can not be deactivated by a thief. The real kicker here is that the first two months of GPS monitoring are free, with a $15 charge for each month thereafter. So, essentially you are paying for your purse in perpetuity—all in the hopes that you might be able to recover the bag if it should ever vanish (but the contents may be another story). Prices start at $30. [Lightsbag via Shiny Shiny via Popgadget via Ubergizmo]

QuickShell Backpack Makes Your Extreme Adventures Extremely Efficient

If you enjoy rock climbing, snowboarding, or base jumping, you need a backpack that fits in with your hardcore lifestyle. Designer Teo Song Wei believes that his QuickShell backpack concept could be the answer. Instead of packing and repacking your gear, the QuickShell allows users to simply snap on the appropriate module. More »

Wi-Fi Finding Laptop Bags Make Complete Sense

There are a lot of Wi-Fi finders out there, including a Wi-Fi finding shirt, but few are as practical as a finder embedded in a laptop bag. After all, not having to pull your laptop out of the bag to look for a signal is a great time saver when you are hopping around town looking for some freebie bandwidth.The "Wifinder" lineup of laptop bags from Soyntec offer four different styles to choose from, ranging from €43 (about $62) to €43 (about $101). [Product Page via le Journal du Geek via GeekAlerts]

The Worst Thing About IFA

This. Bleeping. Bag. Look, I've lost the power of erudition.

Ballistic Bookbag, Bullet-Proof Back-Pack

These bullet-proof backpacks are claimed to offer as much protection from a shooting as police armor, but at one tenth of the weight. They're aimed at kids, to protect them from all the dangers that 21st-century schooling entails. One immediate problem I see is that it will only protect you if you're shot in the back, at just the right height. Check out a video after the jump. More »

Transforming Dos Caras Jacket Becomes Shoulder Bag

Transformers fever is all but dead now, but that doesn't mean that the ladies can't get in on the something-becoming-something-else action. The Dos Caras jacket functions fine as a jacket, but when removed, can twist and turn and reconvene into a shoulder bag. Definitely cool, but kind of unfortunate that you have to pick one or the other. What will you do if you're both cold and need to carry a bunch of things? [Alice Kaiserswerth via Designspotter via Treehugger]

CarryCool Tote Bag: A Cooler You Have To Plug In

When a cooler full of ice can't handle your mobile refrigeration needs, reach for the CarryCool refrigerated tote. The bag's adapter plugs into a standard car lighter and draws enough power to keep everything inside nice and cool. When would you actually use this thing? Perhaps you're in the business of smuggling dinosaur DNA samples across secluded islands in your Jeep. You can improve upon one of the world's oldest (and cheapest) cooling methods for a mere $155. [CarryCool via Red Ferret]

Chair Backpack Turns You Into a Pink Ninja Turtle

This French-designed chair, called "Wear Your Seat," is a semi-rigid foam cushion that molds to your back. You might dismiss it as a wacky design prototype, but have a little vision: Hot Pink Backspins, dude. More »

USB Purse Allows Women to Lose Stuff Digitally

Misogynistic headline aside, this USB purse design from Russian designer Dima Domissarov is probably the female equivalent of all the weird food-shaped USB sticks we saw in April. Instead of burgers, hotdogs and bread, these USB drives are shaped like miniature flea-market purses. More »

Grocery Bag Grips Practically Give You Octopus Arms

One Grip Bag Holders, which give you a firm handle on grocery bags you can loop into its carabiner design, are a special invention to me. Here's why: More »

Hands-On: Lifepop Mini '80s Boombox

This little vinyl boombox gets pretty loud considering the 9v powerpack and the quarter-sized speakers. Another gem found in the WTF section of CTIA. The kit comes with a minijack adapter, a keychain, and the pouch itself can hold a cellphone or Shuffle, but controlling the device while inside would prove to be challenging. $25. More »

Power Purse: Designer Handbag Powers Gadgets, Questions Your Manhood

Gadget loving ladies and secure men with an eye for designer fashion and a love of gadgets might find the Power Purse as useful as it is stylish. This solar powered bag is completely covered in mini solar panels that can draw power from the sunlight. There is an internal built-in USB port for charging your cell phone or other favorite mobile devices without the need for carrying around all those pesky chargers. More »

Lifepop Stereo Pet Carrier: iPods for Dogs - no, Really

This object apparently elicited "oohs" and "aahs" of delight from Hollywood's chosen few when they saw it as part of their pre-Oscar swag. Ewwwww. According to the PR blurb, this pet carrier brings "the 80's boom box ideal back and turns it into THE accessory built for today's fashion, technology, pet, celebrity and music-obsessed lifestyles." More »

Microsoft Lets You Share Your Wife's Baggage

Need a messenger bag? Well, Microsoft's updated their Samsill line of notebook bags and made them unisex, which means you don't need to get two separate bags for you and your wife if just one of you needs to travel. More »

Elekson Gadget Bag Doubles as USB Keyboard

It's a prototype from Eleksen, the company that makes fabric buttons. Just look at it, in all its cloth-y, clicky, gadget-protecting goodness! The guy from Carrypad UMPC blog says he can type very fast on it, despite the keys having no travel: about 55% of his normal rate within 30 minutes of practice. And the Eleksen guys say its possible to make this bag a Bluetooth device. Sure, sure. Big words from a company not even making the standard USB version yet. Produce them! We shall buy! More »

Naneu Pro Echo Messenger/Camera Bag Hands-On

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Timbuk2 Blogger Bag: Hands All Over The Perfect Sack for Bloggers

This laptop bag is the perfect sack for fast paced field blogging. More »

Doggie Bag

Hurray! My master's putting on his coat, getting ready to take me outside! Wait, what's this? What are you putting on me? Oh god, I can't breathe. Why am I being lifted off the ground!? You bastard! I will eat your child. More »

Be-ez MacBook Bag

These Apple accessories manufacturers are really gung-ho about getting stuff out, fast. Only a day after the MacBook were announced Be-ez—French manufacturer extraordinaire—has already released information about the LE13 bag specifically designed to fit the MacBooks. Unfortunately you won't be the coolest kid on the block, yet. This bag won't be available until July for $85. More »

Shling Style Laptop Bag

OGIO has taken a page out of their golf book and adding a shling style strip to their line of laptop carrying bags. The shling has made carrying a golf bag much easier and more comfortable. The bag itself - completely empty - weighs an already hefty five and a half pounds. Add a laptop and handful of cables and accessories this will push well into double digits. Supposedly the shling distributes weight more evenly and allows the body to stand upright easier but a couple PC Mag reviews editors disagreed with the benefits and had a handful of complaints about this techie shling. OGIO will be shipping these bags later this year for around $199. More »

Vibrating Purse Leaves No Doubt: Incoming Cellphone Call

Here's a purse from Esquire that solves a big problem: missing phone calls because you didn't hear or feel your cellphone ringing. It reportedly stirs up enough ruckus to make you think there's a jackhammer jumping around inside that purse, and if you somehow don't feel that, there is a blinking light that also notifies you of an incoming call. More »

Kaala Sports Evolution: Golf Bag of the Future

The Kaala Sports Evolution Golf Bag looks like an escape pod from a star cruiser, but it's useful right here on earth. Its hard shell exterior keeps your golf clubs dry and locked away, and inside there is a carousel that delivers the club you specify with the rotation of a simple dial. It rolls on retractable wheels, and you can even get a motorized model that propels itself along for you with little effort required. It's $430, or $865 for the self-propelled version. More »

Woody iPod Blaster

If there's a hipster in your life whose lights you'd like us to punch out, by all means equip them with this $50 Woody iPod Blaster bag and make sure they're blasting some Yeah Yeah Yeahs from it while they walk by us on their way to the L train. Nothing says "SCREW U MOM & DAD!" harder than a mass-produced wood print vinyl bag. More »

Solar Messenger Bag from Innovus

Here's a gizmo that could come in handy. The Innovus Design Fusion Solar Messenger Bag w/ optional PowerPac is basically a messenger bag that uses solar power to charge external batteries as well as internal batteries of a bunch of personal electronics using an existing 12V cigarette lighter adapter. So not only can you throw all your electronic shit in the bag, you can use it to quick-charge them as well. No price yet. More »