Throw a typical portable computer in your backpack and before you know it, your high technology is jabbing you in the back, and your pens and spiral-bound notepads are scratching its case. Some lesser lap-tops even turn on, running down batteries. And then there's the problem of what to do with all those accessories.
Silicon Sports attempts to solve these problems with its Notebook Backpack. The company has a line of three very comfortable backpacks. The Standard backpack has two full-size compartments: a conventional one for your papers and a padded one with Velcro straps for your notebook. Interior pockets give you handy places to put PCMCIA cards, floppy disks, and extra mice balls. The Deluxe backpack has more padding on the back, and file-folder dividers that turn your backpack into a mobile file cabinet.
My favorite, though, is the leather version, which takes the Deluxe backpack one better by replacing the nylon with a tanned hide.
Standard Notebook Backpack: US$59.95, Deluxe: $89.95, Leather: $200. Silicon Sports, Inc.: (800) 243 2972, +1 (415) 327 7900.
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