The Imago is a new, small messenger-style bag set to debut in May. Before official photographs of the Imago are released, we will be posting pictures of the bag on our blog to give you a pre-release glimpse of the cool features of this bag. See earlier pictures of the Imago.

The pocket you see in the picture above with the cell phone inside is lined with Ultrasuede®, a high-tech synthetic suede material that feels like chamois. The zipper on the pocket is a splash-proof zipper. The side pocket, which is on both the right and left sides of the Imago, will hold any iPod and most cell phones.

In the final version of the Imago, the pocket will be lined with black Ultrasuede®, not the brownish color you see in the picture.

What do you think of the Imago?
Talk about it in the Imago forum thread.

The Size 4X Monolith

Designed specifically for the 15.4″ MacBook Pro. Your MacBook hangs suspended, cradled in 8mm thick soft foam padding in a 4mm hard corrugated plastic insert that protects from the front, back, and bottom. Available in colors Black, Steel, Crimson, Wasabi, and Deep Blue.

The Medium Cafe Bag

The Café Bag is available in colors: Black/Steel, Black/Wasabi, Cocoa/Steel, Cocoa/Wasabi, Plum/Steel, Plum/Wasabi, Olive/Steel, Olive/Wasabi, Steel/Deep Blue, Steel/Crimson, and Crimson/Steel.

The Freudian Slip

The Freudian Slip is made to fit inside either the Brain Bag, the Smart Alec, or your current daypack. One side has organizer pockets for your pens, PDA, cell phone, or any small electronics. The other keeps your files and folders neat and protected. Total organization.

Below is a sneak peak picture:

Details will come soon (the Imago has some very cool features.) In the meantime, what are your first impressions?

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.

The End of the Internet? an article by Jeff Chester, posted at The Nation.

Excerpt: “The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.”