Gadgetory

hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet.com Skaro tsuboi joined by senior editor Seth Rosenblatt hey and Seth when we're on the go we carry a lot of gadgets with us and what you're about to show us today is not really a gadget but an accessory that kind of saved your life last week it was a major help in getting my work done last week I was stuck in New York during the sandy aftermath and this is Timbuktu's new power commute bag looks like their standard I suggested your bag yeah what's really interesting about it you have you know your typical Timbuktu three panel design and it's TSA compliant which is really cool definitely but the most important thing for me last week was that it comes with this battery pack that up and inside especially designed pockets inside of special pocket it's got this a battery pack from Joey it's called the t1 and as you can see here it has USB and micro USB ports and you're able to plug in your devices on the go and it charges them pretty rapidly when got my phone from five percent to about thirty percent battery life in about 20 minutes Wow so the idea is that you charge this battery packs a overnight exactly and then all day when you're on the go you can plug in your devices precisely okay so smart phones have you tried charging your laptop or tablet a laptop doesn't work unless it has a USB or micro USB connection and laptops don't yet do that tablets that were great smartphones are great certain cameras will charge off of it and what's really neat about the about the t1 is that a auto detects the proper amperage for your device so you don't have to worry about frying it oh that is a nice feature and something i also like about this bag is how smartly designed it is i mean they've obviously been in the business of designing messenger bags for a long time but show off how it all kind of connects inside sure so on the back we have our TSA compliant section you can put your laptop or tablets in here the laptop sections up here tablets would go down here but what's really cool is that you can feed the Joey cable through the back of the bag so you don't if it's if there's bad weather out or if you don't want your devices to be exposed you can have them charging without you know anybody seeing that you're actually charging them and in fact one thing I was doing was on the new york subway i would have the bag on my back and the cable running to my phone in my pocket phone was useless in the subway anyway and by the time i got off the subway i had enough charge to go about my business that's great yeah so this is the timbuk2 power commute and it is part of that commute line so all accessories for example we have the camera insert yes there's still compatible absolutely it'll wait in that's right zip this up so this is the camera accessory that just steps padded for four cameras lenses film and that will slip right inside but this is the bag that debuts this today I've used today it retails I believe for 199 and Timbuktu is also doing a backpack version of it what can I say that fits and there you go great well thank you set thank you very much I guess to get your hands on a bag go to Timbuktu's website Timbuktu com awesome Seth Rosenblatt I'm car tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop