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Laptop Alert: Checkpoint-friendly bags really are coming

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David Field
 on July 8, 2008 8:04 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0) |
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Here's a first look at one of the new laptop-totting, TSA-friendly bags that Left Field was talking about the other day. This one comes from Skooba Design, which is a Rochester, NY-based luggage maker. The point is that the laptop itself sits in a different part of the bag from the wires, mice etc., and so the TSA screener can see the device when scanning it. But a Harrisburg, Pa, based company called CODi may be first to market. They should be on the market in August, according to company spokeswoman Julie Bancroft.

Other companies are rushing to get their checkpoint friendly products to market, including Targus, Pathfinders, and others. Skooba calls its product Checkthrough, and says it will have detailed images and the like ready some time this month. The image above is a marketing image. It's not sure when it will be on the market, but probably this fall.

The TSA will not endorse any bags or certify them, and says it is strictly limiting how companies can market their products. But Bancroft uses the phrase 'Checkpoint-Tested' as a trademark. Below is a picture of the CODi product; the laptop sits in the right pouch, by itself. The buzz on the blogosphere is that the new CODi-CT Open.JPGproducts are fine and dandy, but will the TSA's front-line screeners be ready?

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By MrTimt on April 16, 2009 5:42 PM

Do you think we'll see the day when LCD monitors are replaced by holographic displays? Screens that literally appear out of thin air in full color?

What do you think? Holographic technology is still fairly new but there are scientists out there who believe we've only begun to tap into it.

There are also people working on holographic based cloaking devices for use in combat. In 10 years we could be looking back on the technology of today and laughing.

Thoughts?

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