Awesome Stuff: Getting Creative With Bags

Innovation

from the searching-for-the-perfect-bag dept

We’re back with another awesome stuff post of interesting crowdfunding projects. This week, we’re looking at some different approaches to bags. There are a ton of bag/backpack products on Kickstarter these days, but these three stood out as interesting in taking different approaches.

• The Air Pakk The Air Pakk isn’t just a backpack, but it’s also an inflatable pillow/pad. Both the front and the back easily inflate to create a pillow on the go. Of course, some of the sample use cases seem somewhat impractical as you’d have to more or less empty out the bag itself to use, but if you don’t carry around that much, it could be handy.
• The Hoboroll The Hoboroll is a pretty straightforward stuff sack, but with the potentially useful addition of compartments within the stuff sack, making it easier to keep your stuff organized and accessible, than in a straight up stuff sack.
• The Colfax Smart Pack I’m always on the lookout for interesting computer backpacks, but most of them don’t seem to offer that much value and are too expensive. The Colfax design looks pretty nice and well thought out, though it’s still pretty damn expensive. Not enough for me to move on from my trusty Swiss Gear bag that has served me well for years, but figured some folks might be interested.

As a bonus, we’ve got the “interesting branding choices” award going to the Douche Bag, which looks like a decent enough simple duffel bag/backpack combo, but not so sure about the naming strategy or the giant “Douche” printed on the side. Sure, sure, the guy claims it’s a way of mocking how overpriced bags act as a “billboard” for their luxury brand name, but isn’t the best way to fight back against that to make a bag without any brand name, rather than coming up with a juvenile new brand name to promote?

That’s it for this week. Pack up your stuff and head out for the weekend.

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