My wife thinks it’s hilarious but it’s undeniable that we gadget guys need bags, lots and lots of pretty bags. Well, maybe not pretty — you know, sort of manly, handsome bags. A bag for the camera, a bag for the phone, a bag or two for the laptop, a bag for all the bags. I even found a bag to carry my 24″ iMac around in — really. Ok, maybe it’s a diagnosable condition.
Still, my bag lust is most often sated by these two crazy Aussies who seem to be former bike messengers with an even bigger bag festish than mine. Their company, Crumpler Bags, produces everything from tiny cell phone carriers to mondo business trip size stuff. They also have one of the most outrageous and original web sites this side of Sponge Bob Squarepants. The site is totally safe for browsing from work, unless you’re on a conference call and using your speaker phone, as my wife found out this week when she surfed over to check out the merchandise only to have the sound of a howling monkey broadcast to all her business partners. Oops. I told you it was outrageous!
My latest purchase was a new laptop bag with more room for other junk. I had a Roadwired Scooba bag which is extremely functional but butt ugly and with limited space for paper files or books or bottles of Dom Perignon or whatever it is that you absolutely must lug around this week. It was obviously time to upgrade to a Crumpler bag.
Crumpler bags all have crazy names. One line of camera bags is called the million dollar home. So I have a red version of the $3 million dollar home (click on the thumbnails below for a bigger view) to carry my Canon Rebel XT but you may need the bigger $5 million dollar home if your telephoto lens is bigger than mine.
For my laptop, after living with beige and black (and just a wee stripe of orange) for all these years, I wanted something more colorful, something more eye catching, something purple! And, of course, it needed to have a cushioned pocket for my laptop because I don’t need no laptop sleeve (or maybe I do but not all the time). And it had to have a lot of space for other stuff.
Hmm, amongst laptop choices, did I need the dreadful embarrassment? The Crumpler site has plenty of info, including specific measurements, to help you decide which bag is suitable. Turns out I did not need to be dreadfully embarrassed, only considerably. Crumpler had once mailed me a paper catalog that showed a deep purple version of the moderate embarrassment. Jumped to their web site and, ooo, it’s not in stock in purple anymore. A lengthy search online at other outlets eventually turned up a true purple bag at Kolo Bags. Phew.
One warning for purple-o-philes like myself — Some online stores that sell Crumpler bags describe the light and dark blue shades as purple and call the true purple bag dark purple. Don’t be led astray! And check out some pics of the new bag:
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