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Is This How to Carry Your Gadgets?
mightypie writes "What's the best way of carrying a Visor Prism, mobile phone, cybertool, digital camera, wallet & keys? I just don't like the vest solution Somebody here must have the solution" That is the most disturbing ad I've seen. Someday my phone/camera/pda/mp3 player will be one tiny happy box. As it stands my solution is baggy pants w/ big pockets.
I can't believe I am the only one mentioning and OtterBox
is a backpack. I have a cybertool, pens, screwdriver, bootdisks, flashlight and, occasionally, an engineering emergency pack with more things like blowtorch, wires, cutter, etc. in it. Also assorted other things, I don't remember and don't need so often ;-)=)
It is also great for shopping, if you use public transportation and do an evening walk through the city as a matter of habit.
If you spend a little more and get a variant with a lot of pockets that is also rainproof, endless joy awaits you. If you take care that it is large enough to put a ring-binder or two into it, even better.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted and ignored otherwise.
I hate belts. I hate people who put things on them, especially when it's a pice of electronics, particuarly cell phones. Cargo pants don't work for the same reason. They get heavy, not to mention that they're too damn hot if you plan to spend more than a minute outside during a Minnesota summer. The continental climate here cranks up the heat index much higher than you'd imagine.
I use a backpack, and the one I have isn't too hot, even for biking. It has a metal arch that keeps the bag off your back, and copious pockets. The pockets for the helmet strap and rain fly are padded enough for electronics, and hidden well enough that you could probably sneak things past security guards. The brand is Vaude, and I think the URL is implied.
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on the "Geek Lameness" scale of 1-10, that vest is about a 25.......
tumi ( http://www.tumi.com ) makes a line of decent men's/unisex bags (i have the "large european tote" and i also use a coach and a prada, they allow me to take; my Rio MP3, cell phone, credit cards/id,2-way pager, alpha pager, Soul Player, 35 CD Holder, camel's, zippo, LiON AA's, earphones and Palm Vx/Compaq Color Companion (i know - i'm behind in PDA's)..in a pinch i can throw in a my kodak dc290 and a spare CF card..........
i can keep all that crap out of my pants/jacket, and the only negative effect is that i list slighty to the side i'm carrying it on....and in the midwest hicks make jokes about guys with "purses" (not too many, i'm 6'2" and 265#)
...for those times that cargo pants and fishing vests don't quite make it...
PS (if you want the "Ultimate Vest" check Porter's Camera's "21 Pocket Photographer's Vest", (very inexpensive)i used to be a photog and you wouldn't believe how much these things can hold, pretty much standard issue for many major media/national geo/wireservice photogs....Porter's is at
http://www.porters.com
Ten quid, she's so easy to blind. And not a word is spoken...
Like the eHolster?
See the new Dockers "mobile pant". According to the company, "The Mobile Pant is keeping in step with the needs of men and their high-tech, mobile lifestyle by providing them with a stylish way of carrying the tools of their trade." I'm not sure you can fit a textbook in them though. And apparently they are only for men. I guess women do not have a "high-tech mobile lifestyle."
I just conferred with a female friend of mine who's into wearables and she says that purses w/computers are impractical and that other spaces on females tends to be not roomy enough if you don't want to run around DDD.
There is absolutely no reason to panic.
Okay... This seems to have struck enough of a chord to make it worth it to make a web page about it. I don't have my digital camera right now, but in the next few weeks, I'll take pictures and put together a site.
I'll submit it to /. when done - hopefully it will at least show up as a quickie.
As a quick and simple description, big, oversized buttons and gadget loops are your friends; every internal pocket should have horizontal elastic straps above it so oversized (long) items can be snapped into place (displacing weight), and the best bit was figuring out that nylon webbing (about an inch and a half, two inches wide) reinforcing across the interior keeps it looking like there are heavy items "sagging" pockets. Attach the nylon straps to a loop going around the back of the neck and to the armpits (of the trench, not *your* armpits, dummy). Both those locations can take weight without (and I'm no tailor, so don't flame me for misusing this phrase) disturbing the cut of the trench.
Also, leave the waist down alone, and when you walk at a decent clip, the top stays closed (as it has weight), and the bottom flares open.
Thinking about it, it's sorta like a backpack, only you're on the inside. Oh - and I tried using spring clips like the kind that some laptop bags have sewn in to keep you keys on... and they always dropped stuff.
The biggest downside is you can't just toss your trench into the corner, and you wind up learning to pick it up by searching for the collar and lifting from there, rather than grabbing any part and picking it up.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
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