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Modular product solutions are great. You get to take a bunch of things designed to work together and play around with them until you have a finished product that works and looks exactly like you [...]

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Traveling with a laptop isn't fun, or convenient or anything less than a complete pain in the ass, but it's also necessary in the age where you better be able to send a TPS report [...]

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At first glance, the Epperson Mountaineering Climb Pack looks like every menswear trend from the last year got thrown up into bag form. It's got camo and bright color accents and, somehow, it just works. [...]

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No, Best Made did not spell the name of the bag that Puff Daddy's umbrella-totting assistant carries around wrong. Ditty bags were originally made by apprentice sailmakers to prove they were worthy of crafting a [...]

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Deciding between a messenger bag and a backpack is a decision every guy is going to have to make at some point in his life. For many of us it's subconscious, we mess around with both after we're [...]

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When we travel, we don't usually throw our laptop in the same plastic bag as our open toothpaste tube and bottle of aftershave. Toiletries and electronics have always occupied two different realms of our weekender bag when [...]

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The only problem we have with an Everyday Carry is that we don't always find ourselves having a need for all those cool gadgets and tools everyday. We're running a men's website here, not putting [...]

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Let's get one thing out of the way right off the bat; if you don't have a camera rig worth more than your first car this probably isn't the bag for you. If you do [...]

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There's no shortage of cool backpacks/rucksacks/packs on the market today because technically you can throw two shoulder straps on just about anything and call it a backpack. Lifetime Collective's new Harvest Backpack is old school [...]

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Camo is available on just about everything these days. You can get camo Clarks desert boots, camo Dockers pants, camo pocket squares, camo shirts and pretty soon you'll probably even be able to pick up [...]

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If you were to ask a woman to show you her "weekend" bag, most would roll out something that would need to be checked at the airport. For us guys, we need the essentials, and for [...]

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Every time we put on a backpack and hop on the bike we're terrified that water is going to fall from the heavens and ruin everything inside. Seeing as how it's impossible to disconnect these [...]

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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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