I think if more women were involved in deciding what products to design, what I've been looking for would already exist. I want a very small bag on wheels -- not something that looks like carry-on luggage, but a small, sleek case with a compartment for a laptop and room for one book and a few personal items. There are lots of larger cases, but they don't make them small enough, because -- I think -- men find it easy to carry a small bag (and would be embarrassed to wheel one). But, believe me, women want wheels for a simple laptop case.
And don't make it out of that coarse "technical nylon" with thick velcro-y flaps on the outside. Don't make it multicolored or shape it like a dorky backpack with those ugly padded backpack straps. Make it simple, black nylon and put two zippers on the top. Make the handle slim and the wheels small. There! It's such an obvious product! Somebody needs to start making this. Please. You'll get rich.
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Maybe something like this?
http://www.ebags.com/timberland/r73_wheeled_boarding_tote/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=41580
That's close and similar to what I've been seeing, but it's still too large. That measures 13.50 x 14.00 x 8.00, but I want something closer to 10 x 12 x 6. Plus, the styling isn't sleek enough. I don't like the cable-trim. And the interior design is for clothing, not a laptop/schoolbag/wallet set of compartments.
Ann: Your request has already been forwarded to students at one of the nation's top design schools.
Thank you for your patience.
Thanks!
I've really tried looking on line and everything looks like you're going to go travelling, not just to work. I actually have a wheeling travel bag the size of the one freeman found, and I sometimes use it to drag files around, but people constantly ask me about my travel plans. Plus, travel bags never open up easily -- you're not expected to dig around in them and put things in and out constantly.
It's not on wheels, but when I get my powerbook (please, god, one day), I'm getting one of these to carry it...
http://www.acmemade.com/thecargo.html
As long as something is being designed to order, consider making a bag that you can carry up on your shoulder, like a normal computer bag, but that has a long wheeled support brace extending at the base.
Anyway, for a nonwheeling computer case, I recently got one of these, and I like the style:
Acme Made * The Designer Slim.
Knoxgirl: Funny that you were linking to the AcmeMade page at the same time I was.
Now that you're talking about personal items you wish for and own, would you give all us 'Althomers' the report on that topaz hair smoother?? Was it worth the price? What about Silvio? How's he doing these days?
Did I just coin a new term? Those who stay at the Althouse are 'Althomers', because you've made your Althouse our home. [Plus the Simpsonian connection is also good.]
Doh!
A worry:
How good is it for your laptop to be bumped along on urban sidewalks and to cross potholed streets on wheels? (This is a New Yorker thinking. The motherboard would be jarred loose.)
Amba: They'll have to take that into account when they design this thing.
As a photographer, I'm constantly wheeling stuff around. One thing I'd like to point out... if the wheelbase is too narrow, the rolling thingy will constantly tip to the side which is very irritating.
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