gmich: Brain Bag Goes To Class (Review, Packing List, Photo)

Below is a review of the Brain Bag posted by gmich in the TOM BIHN Forums. His packing list is especially useful in visualizing just how much the Brain Bag can carry:

As a professor of education, I often have a lot to carry to my classes. But no matter how much I have to bring with me, I really try to avoid carrying more than one bag. And that’s where the Brain Bag comes in.

Last week I had it stuffed to the gills (though I could have squeezed in more if I’d had to:). The photo above shows it loaded down with:

  • 11″ Acer netbook in a horizontal Brain Cell
  • Archos 5 Android 5″ internet tablet in a TB small padded organizer pouch
  • 3 thick 8×11 textbooks
  • 1 thick 7×10 textbook
  • 1 file folder full of 30 laminated 8×10 photographs
  • Freudian slip containing:
    • –3 plastic file folders full of papers/assignments/student work
    –2 Moleskine notebooks (one large, one small)
    –3 magazines
    –iPod and earbuds
    –Sprint Mifi
    –2 DVDs
  • 2 hardcover children’s picture books
  • 1 VHS tape (yep — still use them occasionally)
  • 2 stacks of index cards
  • several pens, highlighters
  • 2 flash drives
  • stack of business cards

    • It was heavy, but not bad considering all that was in there. And the best thing about it is that, with the two large main compartments, it’s so flexible. You can configure it to carry a change of clothes, two laptops, groceries — just about anything.
    The Brain Bag Backpack by TOM BIHN goes to class

    darcy | 8 March 2010 3:01 pm