Week of 13 April, 2008 - 00:00 to 19 April, 2008 - 23:59

Dick De Bartolo, in addition to hosting the Daily Giz Wiz podcast and being Mad Magazine's Maddest Writer, reviews gizmos and gadgets on World News Now, ABC's overnight news program. (Remember when Anderson Cooper co-anchored the show?) And this week on World News Now, Dick De Bartolo is featuring TOM BIHN bags.

If you don't already watch or record World News Now, we recommend watching or setting your DVRs to record the show tonight (aka Friday morning.) World News Now airs at 2AM or later -- exactly when depends on your local ABC station, so be sure to check your channel guide for days and times.

And remember: this is television! If there's a huge breaking news story, TOM BIHN bags might be moved to another show/day. If that happens, we'll let you know.

Once you've seen the show, be sure to let us know what you thought of the show in the TOM BIHN Forums.

We're a fortunate company: among our customers are some of the most accomplished people we've ever had the opportunity to meet.

One of those customers is Daniel Beltra, an award-winning photographer who has documented several expeditions by Greenpeace to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian Ice Fields, and more.

This year, Daniel was awarded the inaugural "Global Vision Award" from the Pictures of the Year International contest for work in the Ross Sea and the Amazon, and was recently admitted to the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers.

Daniel's photography delivers the impacts of deforestation, global warming, and commercial whaling to a worldwide audience. Many of us won't see first-hand the rainforest burning in Brazil or extreme droughts caused by global warming, but, in Daniel's pictures that chronicle these events, one feels their immediacy and potential consequences.

View Daniel's Global Vision Award winning pictures in a narrated slideshow

Daniel's winning photo in the 2008 Best of Photo Journalism

The Amazon's Thirst for Water

Daniel Beltra Web site

Daniel uses our Super Ego messenger bag, Empire Builder briefcase, Absolute Shoulder Strap, Utility Tote, and the Brain Cell. About our bags, Daniel says: "I really like the quality of your products."

"But the best part was on the outbound leg of this trip I'm currently on, to Brazil. My Delta flight from Portland to Atlanta got an hour weather delay, leaving me 15 minutes to get from the T concourse to the E concourse for my international leg. (Many of you reading know what this is like, I presume.) So, I grabbed the Brain Bag, and threw it on my back, and then slung the Aeronaut over my right shoulder and neck. I slung the bag forward in front of my waist, and grabbed both handles to reduce the weight on the neck. I ran like this to the tram, trammed to E, and then ran the rest of the way down to E1. Even carrying this, rather than rolling, it was still less effort, and I was especially happy not to need a double-wide space that the roller took. I might have looked a bit funny running with a big backpack sticking out my back, and a fullsize carryon in front of my stomach, but it worked, and that's all that mattered to me." -- Read merlyn's full review in the TOM BIHN Forums. Or see the Brain Bag and Aeronaut.

On the Ristretto:
"I immediately ordered one, hoping it would fill that inner longing and emptiness I had in my heart for a portable companion that I could dump on and wouldn’t weigh me down. I would spend every day looking at the product page… reading… then re-reading the product description. Was this bag too good to be true?" -- Read the entire review or see the Ristretto.

The Empire Builder briefcase is now shipping within one business day in three colors: Black/Black/Cayenne, Black/Black/Sapphire, and Black/Black/Steel. Other colors soon to follow.

The Empire Builder in colors Black/Steel/Steel, Black/Steel/Wasabi, and Black/Crimson/Steel is now shipping by late April -- several weeks ahead of schedule. Backorders, as always, will ship first. (And in most cases, backorders have shipped or are shipping out today/tomorrow.)