“If you want a backpack that is not only well made but hand made with love, durable, and versatile, you can’t really go wrong with something like the Brain Bag from Tom Bihn. You get four exterior pockets, two large compartments, high quality materials, and excellent craftsmanship. Most importantly, it’s completely customizable for your needs.”
Read the full review by Michael Kwan on FutureLooks.com
The Brain Bag backpack is now shipping in all colors: Black, Universal Camouflage, Navy, Steel, and Olive.
The Western Flyer carry-on travel bag is now shipping in both configurations – Rolling Luggage Handle Pocket and Backpack Straps – in all colors: Indigo/Solar, Steel/Solar, Black/Steel, and Crimson/Steel.
The Cache laptop sleeve is back in-stock in Vertical Size 4Z and Horizontal Sizes 4Z, 6Z, and Air. Note that these new sizes are available in Black instead of the previously available Charcoal.
“I beat the hell out of this bag. Over the last six weeks I carried it through the Canadian wilderness and down the Las Vegas strip. Its been thrown in trunks, dragged by kids, and schlepped around everywhere with me. It still looks like new.
More importantly, it has performed just as advertised. The Ristretto is a great solution for the iPad and just a bit more. If you routinely use Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard, it’s perfect. I liked it so much, I bought another one for my wife.”
Read the entire review at MacSparky.
“As a hydrologist and consulting engineer, this [Field Journal Notebook]is exactly what I need for field work and construction site visits. The pen organization is great, and the iPhone/camera pocket is perfectly located, since I usually have to sketch what I see, take a photo, mark the location and direction of the photo on the sketch, and repeat. This configuration looks like it will make the pen/marker/iPhone shuffle much easier, and reduce the risk of dropping my iPhone every time I have to dig it out of my pocket.
The idea of the strap looks to be absolutely brilliant, as it is difficult to write/sketch while holding a notebook with your one free hand alone. Plus, I inevitably find myself climbing up and down channel banks, dam embankments, wading through slippery rock-filled streams, or otherwise walking across terrain that is best navigated with two free hands,
so I am stoked about the idea of carrying the fjn messenger style as opposed to constantly stowing and un-stowing a regular notebook in a backpack.
I’m sure this will prove valuable to many other professions (or leisure activities), but the design intent of being useful for those who need to make scientific observations in the field seems to be right on the mark. Now I just have to pick a color, do I match my Synapse by getting navy, or the rest of my TB bags by getting steel…”
Read more posts like mitt’s in the TOM BIHN Forums thread: the Field Journal Notebook.
The Field Journal Notebook is a modern accessory for using a very old technology – pen and paper. Designed originally for biologists and geologist working in the wilderness, the Field Journal Notebook is a useful tool for artists, writers and anyone who, for reasons aesthetic or practical, wants an alternative to electronic devices. Essentially, the Field Journal Notebook is a compact, portable, weather-proof, zippered notebook for note-taking, journaling or sketching. Available for pre-order; ships by early December. $75. Includes Shoulder Strap, one 100-sheet pack of your choice of Ruled or Grid printed both sides paper, TOM BIHN logo flexible plastic ruler, and one Key Strap. Additional accessories can be ordered on the Field Journal Notebook Accessories page.
The first ever TOM BIHN Fest was a success! maverick, who organized the event, reports: “we just got back from the tom bihn fest, and had the most fantastic time! it was such a pleasure to meet folks in person and enjoy their lovely company and share how we use our bags!”. maverick took lots of amazing photos of the TOM BIHN Fest. We’ve shared a few of them below, but be sure to check out the TOM BIHN Fest thread in the forums for more photos.
maverick has organized the first ever TOM BIHN Festival/Meet Up. It’s to take place in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, September 25th at 11:00am. You will meet your fellow TOM BIHN fans on the mall between the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Castle.
Katy has created a TOM BIHN Wallpaper for your iPad based on our Matterhorn logo. Download here. The Matterhorn Logo is also available in Stickers and Luggage Tags. See the TOM BIHN Wallpaper for the iPad in action in maverick’s video Carrying an Apple iPad in the Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer Briefcase.
