alt="Soft Cell" width="100" height="159">A padded sleeve for your laptop, the Soft Cell is designed to protect your laptop against scrapes and scratches. It is currently available in six Vertical sizes (5, 4, 4X, 3, 2, 2XL) to fit a wide range of laptops and now two Horizontal sizes (5 and 2) that are available for pre-order now with a shipping date of mid-May.

The Vertical Soft Cell is designed to slip inside our Brain Bag or Smart Alec backpacks, or most other backpacks. The Horizontal Soft Cell will slip inside our Empire Builder briefcase, or Super Ego or ID messenger bags, or most other messenger bags or briefcases.

The gate less traveled:
Tips and tools you can use to find faster airport security lines, an article by Conor Dougherty, originally published in the The Wall Street Journal, has some great tips and tools for the traveler who wants to avoid those long security lines. Registration may be required.

We recommend taking an Aeronaut maximum carry-on bag with you to improve any travel experience. The Aeronaut is available for pre-order now and will ship within the next two weeks. As you may recall, we decided to make five Aeronauts in the color Hunter Green to see how they looked — a couple of those are still available. If you’d like to order the Aeronaut in Hunter Green, email us.

Now in stock:

Size 4X Soft Cell Sleeve for the MacBook Pro

Small Cafe Bag

The Size 4 Monolith

We often come across forums or blogs on which you, our customers, have
recommended our bags. Often, too, you let us know that you’ve recommended our products by sending us a link to what you posted.

We’d like to thank you for your many recommendations. We’re thrilled
that you like our bags enough to recommend them to other people. We read what you say, and we share your comments with everyone in the company. That you like our products makes it so much more fun to come to work every day and to do what we do. You’ve taught us to do the same with products we really love (see Staff Picks). So, thank you.

What inspired the thank you? This post on href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/03/29/Bags">ongoing. Be sure to check it out. It includes some great raves for our bags and it’s a good rundown of other bag companies and what their products are like.

Which colors would you like to see the Imago (our new small messenger-style bag) in?

Cast your vote in the Imago poll in our forums. You can choose up to six color combinations from a list of nineteen possible color combinations. You must be a registered member of our forums to vote. If you aren’t yet a member of our forums, don’t worry! It’s easy to sign up.

Now in stock:

The Size 1 Brain Cell

The Size 2 Brain Cell

The Jimi iPod nano Case

The Jimi iPod nano Case is now available for order and ships immediately.

Made from hardwearing, translucent polycarbonate (first cousin to bullet-proof glass), the Jimi iPod nano case takes care of the basics and throws in some surprises to boot. It protects your nano from scratches and dings, while offering full access to controls and the ability to attach it to a belt, armband or lanyard.

This adaptable new iPod case’s most obvious innovation lies in its unique swappable cover. Like the case itself, the faceplate will be available in six different colors, so you can mix and match color combos as the mood strikes. Separate faceplates will be available for order in late April.

The Jimi iPod nano case has a few other surprises up its sleeve, including a mirror window. Exploiting the iPod nano’s polished back surface, the mirror window allows you to signal for help, change your contact lenses or check your smile in a hurry.

The Jimi iPod nano case is $19.00.

The Size 4X Brain Cell, designed specifically for the 15.4″ MacBook Pro, is in-stock and ready to ship.

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. The Brain Cell is available in colors Black, Steel, Crimson, Deep Blue, and Wasabi.

Our simple Organizer Pouches will add an extra pocket for organization to any bag. Using a small-but-tough plastic snaphook, they attach, via a key snap “D” ring, to the TOM BIHN Buzz sling bag, Super Ego messenger bag, Smart Alec backpack, ID messenger bag, LUX shoulder bag, the Empire Builder briefcase, the Aeronaut maximum carry-on bag, and all sizes of the Cafe shoulder bags. The Organizer Pouches will also fit inside most other bags, but may not clip inside if those bags do not have a “D” ring.

The Organizer Pouches are available in sizes Small ($5.00), Medium ($7.00) and Large ($9.00).

Are you having a hard time deciding between our Brain Bag and Smart Alec backpacks? If so, be sure to check out the forum topic “Am I a Smart Alec or a Brain?”. It’s full of great tips, advice and insight from current customers and users of the Brain Bag and Smart Alec.

“Am I a Smart Alec or a Brain?” @ Tom Bihn Forums