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August 11, 2010
Girl found in luggage at airport!
Just kidding! A pair of Vancouver entrepreneurs have taken the notion of making a suitcase stand out on the luggage rack to a whole new level.
The abducted flight attendant is one of four designs a pair of Vancouver entrepreneurs have developed to make luggage stand out on airport carousels. (thecheeky.com)Colin Hart and Ryan McCormick have created large stickers that can be placed on luggage to give it the appearance that something strange or nefarious is going on.
The stickers make it appear that the suitcases have been ripped open to expose either stacks of money, cocaine, an abducted flight attendant or a case full of sex toys.
The pair operate a website that sells novelty items called thecheeky.com.
Hart said he got the idea while observing people watching nearly identical bags circling the carousel at Vancouver International Airport.
“You know they’re just standing there like zombies just looking at these things,” he told CBC News.
The suitcase full of cocaine is one of four luggage stickers created by two Vancouver entrepreneurs. (thecheeky.com)“And I was just going like is there any way that we could make this a little bit more interesting.”
When a friend blogged about the stickers last week, the story went viral and orders began pouring in from Russia to Brazil.
The pair are now working on a sticker design that will simulate a suitcase full of illegal elephant tusks.
But they advise caution that the stickers could catch the attention of airport security.
“It’s like go ahead, try it if you want, but you’re probably going to get a rubber glove up your bum,” said Hart.
Transport Canada, which is responsible for airport security, is aware of the stickers and currently working on a response.
July 27, 2010
Backpacks Armed with Alarms?????
I just really had to share this with everyone out there! I can’t believe this was ever a good idea ;)
The Newest Stupid Luggage Idea: Backpacks Armed with Alarms
There’s something charmingly innovative but fundamentally stupid about the iSafe line of laptop backpacks and messenger bags. Though they look normal from the outside, on the inside they have built-in alarms, duly powered by two 9-volt batteries, that get triggered when a strap is pulled. The resulting sound is louder than a car alarm. And goes on for up to two hours. Flashing lights are involved.
We can’t recommend this (to put it mildly) to anyone who flies with their backpacks or laptops. Not to get too pedantic, but when moving through an airport, you can either carry your luggage with you or check it through to your destination. Obviously carrying the iSafe to the gate is a non-starter. We’re not sure what happens when you try to “smuggle” a giant battery-powered alarm at the bottom of a backpack through airport security, but we’re pretty sure it’d make an entertaining YouTube video.
As for checking the backpack through: can you imagine what would happen if the cord got caught on the conveyor belt? That Rutgers student who accidentally shut down Newark is facing an $11,000 TSA fine, and everyone’s like “aww… he was just kissing his girlfriend goodbye.” Extrapolate that to someone who puts the equivalent of a car alarm into a bag that’s destined to be thrown around dozens of times in a few hours.
And if the alarm goes off in the luggage compartment mid-flight and forces an emergency landing, likely accompanied by escort jets…wow.
June 1, 2010
How to clean your designer bag!
Wow, we thought about making a how-to video called “How to clean your handbag” but instead we found one that was really awesome. Please check it out, they did a really good job… and they used Apple Leather Care products! That’s what we use in our repair shop! Click here to view Movie in a new window.
Buy Now - Apple Care Kit for $10.95
May 4, 2010
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas!
Mother’s Day is coming up quick! Need a gift idea? This Sunday May 9th, give mom a gift she can use every day. A new purse, clutch or wallet! These stylish and practical designs by Hobo International are cute and very well made with glazed Florence leather…
Metro Slide
FL-7000
Hobo International
$54.00 Buy Now
Stand By
TR-5339
Hobo International
$158.00 Buy Now
Clio
FL-7011
Hobo International
$64.00 Buy Now
Flight Path
TR-5332
Hobo International
$118.00 Buy Now
Euro Slide
FL-7001
Hobo International
$38.00 Buy Now
For a larger selection of leather goods, handbags, purses, wallets and clutches come into the Handbag & Luggage Store, or give us a call at 1-866-334-7744.
April 5, 2010
Apple’s IPad Passes Through Airport Security
The iPad, as Steve Jobs told us from his comfy leather chair at Macworld, represents a new computing form factor that falls squarely between the laptop and the smartphone. Which raises a curious problem for the Transportation Security Administration: Is the iPad a “laptop” that must be taken out of a bag and put through a scanner separately? Or does it fall into some other, less bomb-like category of gadget that can slip through security hidden in your briefcase?
The answer, according to Altimeter Group technology analyst Charlene Li, seems to be another point in the iPad’s favor. As she wrote in her Twitter feed today, Li took a flight with her iPad in tow and discovered that she wasn’t required to pull it out of her bag in the security line.
Li tells us that she removed her iPad when she approached the TSA guards to ask where it fell on their laptop to non-laptop spectrum. Given the iPad’s brand spanking novelty, the guards didn’t know. So they ran the device through their scanner looking for “a visible CPU and hard drive,” which would qualify it as a laptop. Somehow they didn’t spot that hardware, despite the iPad having both a CPU and a Flash hard drive. (Or at least not one “thick enough to hide explosives” according to Li)
That means that on her next flight, Li can breeze through the checkpoint without exposing her wünder-tablet.
The TSA seems to draw a fairly fuzzy line between what does and doesn’t qualify as a computer capable of hiding a bomb. Li says a Kindle doesn’t count, but a netbook does, and so does an XBOX. “The iPad is basically a big phone,” says Li. “You don’t have to show your smart phone, right?”
Given these shades of semantics, we’ve put in a call to the TSA for the whole story about the iPad’s airport security status. In the mean time, any other early Apple adopters out there with an airport security story to share? Let us know in comments below.
We got the information for this blog from the FORBES.com blog.
August 10, 2009
Back to Campus Sale | 20% Off book bags
It’s that time of Year Again!!! We are having our back to campus Sale - which means students and parents will receive 20% off of all our book bags, backpacks, messenger bags, laptop bags and rolling backpacks in Stock.
PROMO CODE: CAMPUS09 (enter code during checkout to receive 20% off)
Top Rated bags on Sale:
Patagonia - "Cross Town" Backpack
Wheeled Backpack by Kipling
Deluxe Computer Backpack by Briggs & Riley
Have Questions about the Back-To-Campus-Sale? Come visit us at our Santa Barbara Location and see the variety of school supplies we have for students, parents and teachers. We are located at 609 Chapala Street in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara California. You can reach us by phone at (805) 962-7347 or Toll Free 1 (866)334-7744.
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