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If you own the type of camera that comes stock with a car payment, you're probably know what we're talking about when we say it's damn near impossible to find a bag that will fit [...]

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We should probably limit ourselves to a certain amount of bags...but we don't. We have so many bags lying around it's like Hoarders:Bags in our office closet. Paring it down is difficult though. We need [...]

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Before you call us crazy for suggesting you spend $160 on a tote bag, hear us out. Yes, tote bags are, ostensibly, nothing more than glorified, recyclable grocery bags with longer handles. Yes, $160 is [...]

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There are a few standard pieces of luggage you'll see while standing at a baggage carousel—the quintessential black Samsonite, a series of cases that fit like nesting dolls, and one beat up junker covered in [...]

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When looking for a backpack, specifically one designed for use on a bike, there seems to be two schools of thought: either it's made completely out of some synthetic fabric with an unpronounceable name, or [...]

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Mission Workshop is the bag equivalent of MacGuyver, and the almost shiny, tarpaulin style material they use in their bags is their paper clip. But just like MacGuyver needs to branch out from paper clips [...]

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There's nothing glamorous about laundry day. Running around in basketball shorts and a wife beater is fine if you're actually playing basketball, but it doesn't belong off the court and on your person for any [...]

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In the distant future, all backpacks will be armadillo-esque hardshell creations designed for maximum durability without much thought given to design. If you believe that something like Tron or Star Trek will actually come to [...]

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Recycled inner tubes are the building blocks of consumer products in the 21st century. Accessories made of pipe cleaners, hemp, cigar boxes and old cassette tapes used to be the barometer of cool, but these [...]

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In the world of ridiculous extra baggage fees, packing light is all but a necessity these days. Unless you happen to be spending time on a bike in which case you can say to hell [...]

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Somewhere between the blacktop and concrete world of Tony Hawk and the flying car future of the Fifth Element, there's a guy that needs a backpack. In this case, Jansport just isn't going to cut [...]

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Describing traveling with toiletries as a pain in the ass is like describing being in a car accident as inconvenient. If you're incapable of escaping from things like hair product, moisturizer and your favorite razor, [...]

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Necessity may be the mother of all invention, but that doesn't take style into account. This is exactly why we plan on putting all of our stuff in one of Fossil's new line of Region [...]

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In most cases, calling anything The Ultimate is a bit on the presumptuous side. We're willing to let that slide in this particular instance because Inside Line Equipment has truly created what just might be [...]

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It could be due to  Mao, or Campbell's soup cans or Marilyn, but Andy Warhol is a name that everyone is familiar with. The famous artist inspired and entertained countless throngs of people with his [...]

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