Avoiding the Bat-Belt Syndrome?

sangfroid asks: "As my personal technology products have increased, I've started to look more and more like a Batman wannabe. I now carry an iPod, a PDA, a Cell Phone, a Leatherman and a GameBoy (for the subway, really -grin-). Cargo Pants are out because of work and I don't particularly want to carry a back-purse everywhere I go. Is there a solution that doesn't require me to give up all my technology? A PDA/Phone might help but the holy grail would be a HD-based PDA/Phone/Music Player. How do you deal with all these devices without looking like a gargoyle? Is the answer better technology or no technology?"

Comments

one word: manpurse

[bandy]

Get yourself a manpurse. They're sometimes called a "satchel", a "kit bag" or a "courier['s] bag". Put your technology in it. Add a few other things from your pockets such as your cellphone and the big Swiss Army Knife as well. Then get used to carrying it. You'll look better, honest.

I got mine for under ten bucks at a local swap meet. It has slots that fit PCMCIA cards, a big pocket for my Newton MessagePad 2100, pen/pencil/stylus holders and a good spot for flat documents. On vacation it doubles as a camera bag, and of course the cell phone pocket on the strap means never having to figure out which pocket I put it in.

Re:one word: manpurse

[Glonoinha]

HAH! Actually I knew a guy in college that where ever he went he carried something about the size of a smallish laptop case in black nylon. Muc smaller than a briefcase but larger than a Daytimer. Took it to class, to the mall, out walking around .. everywhere. And he never actually opened it to get/put anything - he just carried it.

One day I asked him about it, he opened it up and showed me : Chrome Desert Eagle - the biggest hand cannon I had ever seen. I had no clue all those years, but I'm glad I never gave him any shit about carrying a manpurse.