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Product Spotlight: Mobile Edge EVO Backpack
Posted on Thursday, July 22 @ 19:17:40 Eastern by Chris_Hudak
This games-industry-job stuff means a lot of traveling, and that pretty much means a lot of traveling with a laptop, along with various other gadgets and technoperiphera... and that, of course, means that having functional, tough, reliable, well-designed (and if at all possible, cool-looking) bags and luggage is of primary importance. Tech-oriented backpacks, inexplicably, seem particularly easy for manufacturers to screw up in one way or another. All the more kudos to Mobile Edge for finally putting out a backpack that, halfway through a trip, doesn't actively tempt me into setting it on fire in a dumpster.
The Mobile Edge EVO Backpack has replaced all my other carry-on options in one fell swoop. My biggest gripe with most tech-luggage options? Pockets/compartments—or rather, the glaring lack of enough of them of the right size, place and function. The EVO offers 16 compartments for a wide variety of specific purposes: There's the main laptop sleeve, of course, sufficient to hold/protect laptops up to 16”/17” models.
There are also easily-accessible slots to hold typically-sized USB drives and memory cards, protected pockets suitable for both business cards and smaller electronics, a roomy dedicated media pocket with cable-ports for MP3 players or smartphones, holders for pens and pencils; a rugged moisture-resistant bottom panel protecting the main compartment; five good-sized, zippered outer compartments (one of which is specifically designed to ready access to bottled drinks of various sizes); and two secure outer mesh pockets for the small stuff you grab and stash most as you make your way through the airport, outside the hotel, into the dark, foreboding woods or what have you. It's all intelligently designed around a main interior space just big enough for a couple-day trip, and the straps are strong and comfy, with yet another secure mesh pocket right there, for yet another radio/phone/gadget, you techno-junkie, you.
The Mobile Edge EVO has a suggested retail price of $78, and boasts one additional, important style accolade: The black backpack is available with reflective accent/trim piping in four colors—silver, yellow, blue and red. It gives the already sleek/tech looking bag a kind of TRON look—which, last time we checked, is always a good thing.
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