Recently, I have been toying with experimental packing. A suitcase with all the clothes, cables and computers layered neatly inside is a good idea right up until you open the lid to check you packed something. Then it all goes wrong.
My latest method is to first layer and then tightly roll clothes into a few fat cylinders secured with ball-bungees. This keeps them wrinkle-free and arranges them into easily removable blocks. That way you can hunt around inside your bag for gizmos and the clothes stay in place. I call this method The Tetris.
Spacepak is similar, only you get to buy new, cool luggage gear. The modular system comes in various sizes for suits, shoes and even lingerie, and the airtight, watertight bags have one-way valves so you can squish them down to remove air and it won’t come back in. The bags are split with a moving, central sheet, so you wear clothes from the clean side return them to the dirty side, a very handy feature on its own.
The best, though, is just how tidy this all looks, letting you live out of a suitcase without turning your hotel room into badly-run laundromat. John Brownlee, ex-Wired and Boing Boing Gadgets blogger, and good friend, could have done with a set of these on his recent visit. After bare minutes left alone in the Lady’s room, which he borrowed for his stay, every single surface was covered with his junk (and a fine dusting of pipe tobacco). If you ever wonder what goes on inside a man’s twisted mind, take a look at his bedroom. $30-$100.
Product page [SpacePak via Uncrate]
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