The Aeronaut is now available for pre-order with a shipping date of early April.

A maximum carry-on size duffel bag, the Aeronaut converts to be carried as a backpack with zip-away backpack straps. A padded handle allows it to be carried on-edge as a one would an old-fashioned suitcase, and steel “D”-rings accept a shoulder strap so you can carry it on your shoulder as well.

Details:

Be sure to visit the Aeronaut page for a longer description, more details, bigger pictures, and a F.A.Q.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the “Carry-On Traveller’s Bag” thread in our forums. This Aeronaut is for you!

Customer and forum member Jed posted this picture of himself with his Brain Bag backpack in our Customer Pictures forum:

We’ve recently featured pictures from customers using their Tom Bihn bags in Tanzania, Antarctica, Egypt, and at the Burning Man Festival. If you have any pictures of your Tom Bihn bags that you’d like to share, you can post them in our forums or email them to us at TB Crew | 22 February 2006 3:49 pm

The Size 2XL Soft Cell, available in Black, is now in-stock and ready to ship. Designed to protect your laptop against scrapes and scratches, the Soft Cell has an exterior made of durable 500 Denier Cordura and an interior of super-soft brushed nylon. The Soft Cell protects your laptop with little bulk added and is ideal for those who don’t want their laptop case to make their loads heavier or take up a lot of space. The Size 2XL Soft Cell fits best inside our Brain Bag and Smart Alec backpacks, but it will probably fit in your current backpack as well.

Also in stock and ready to ship is the Size 2 Monolith. The Monolith is available in colors Black, Steel, Crimson, Deep Blue, and Wasabi.
In the Monolith, your laptop hangs suspended, cradled in 8mm thick soft foam padding in a 4mm hard corrugated plastic insert that protects from the front, back, and bottom. The sides are protected by dense cross-linked closed-cell polyethylene foam. This offers the toughest protection you can get for your laptop in a case that is still light and minimalist. The Monolith is specifically designed to clip inside our Brain Bag and Smart Alec backpacks, but it will probably fit in your current backpack, too.

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In the article “Burdens of the Modern Beast”, Washington Post staff writer Linton Weeks makes an interesting observation — we carry a TON of stuff. A lot more than we have in the past. The article notes that many people carry more than one bag at a time.

Some customers have sent us pictures of what they can fit inside their Tom Bihn bags. Check out this picture. The picture posted in this entry is of a customer holding his Empire Builder, and before him is everything he fits in the Empire Builder.

We’re curious. What do you carry with you every day? What can’t you live without? Tell us — in our forums.

I think my favorite part of the article is the writers description of school children with rolling suitcases — “They look like so many little flight attendants.”

The Size 4 Brain Cell is now in-stock in all colors: Black, Steel, Crimson, Deep Blue and Wasabi.

The Brain Cell takes laptop protection a step further. Cradled in 8mm thick soft foam padding, your laptop hangs suspended in a 4mm hard corrugated plastic insert that protects from the front, back, and bottom. The sides are protected by dense cross-linked closed-cell polyethylene foam. This offers the toughest protection you can get for your laptop in a case that is still light and minimalist.