What's in your bag?
What's in your bag is a series which opens up the backpacks and rucksacks of The Verge staff for all to see. Admit it, you desperately want to see who reads US Weekly, and whose back is tearfully mundane (but don't tell them, they have feelings, too). We've gathered the whole series right here, for your voyeuristic convenience.
What's in your bag, Jacob Kastrenakes?
What’s in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we’re featuring Jacob Kastrenakes.
Not carrying three phones, lenses, and battery packs may put me in the minority at Verge HQ, but my shoulders are probably a lot better off for it. I’ve always packed about as lean and light as possible, and short of a nice pair of headphones, my bag...
What's in your bag, Russell Brandom?
What’s in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we’re featuring Russell Brandom.
I travel light. Occasionally I need a camera, but most of my work gets done on a single laptop, so I’m happy to keep my go-bag light enough that I can trek over to the library without too much fuss. I also don’t like backpacks (or at least, not...
What's in your bag, Carl Franzen?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Carl Franzen.
This is my bag. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Seriously, though, when we were doing this shoot at the Vox Media NYC office and I dumped all the stuff out of my bag out onto my desk, I was actually a bit concerned about how spartan my contents were....
What's in your bag, Aaron Souppouris?
Because I work remotely, my bag was shot 5,200 miles from my London home at a tradeshow, so a lot of my equipment didn’t make the journey. Like most of my colleagues, I own a stupid amount of tech. Unlike most of my colleagues, who make the effort to bring every single piece of technology they own to events, I prefer to travel as light as possible. Traversing a show floor with 23 pounds of junk for ten hours a day really isn’t for me.
For me, mobility and comfort is everything. If I...
What's in your bag, Tom Warren?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Tom Warren.
When I'm packing for an event I try to squeeze every gadget possible into my bag. It often feels like I'm moving home, and I'm probably a prime target for would-be muggers, but there is no perfect phone, tablet, or PC right now. Everything fits in somehow,...
What's in your bag, Justin Rubio?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Justin Rubio.
When preparing for big shows like CES, Google I/O, or any of Apple’s many events, it's far too easy to come under-prepared — so I make sure to bring everything I could possibly think of in terms of electronics and, most importantly, hygiene. This usually...
What's in your bag, Dieter Bohn?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Dieter Bohn.
The Consumer Electronics Show begins next week and The Verge will be there in full force to cover everything we're expecting and more than a few things that we're not. To prepare for both, I tend to go a little overboard in preparing my bag. This isn't what my bag...
What's in your bag, Scott Lowe?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Scott Lowe.
Whenever I travel, regardless of whether it’s in the San Francisco Bay area or New York City, I prefer to carry as little as possible. In my mind, there’s nothing worse than a massive, overstuffed messenger bag or backpack. It’s completely counter to the idea...
What's in your bag, Thomas Ricker?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Thomas Ricker.
I've had a love affair with computer bags for more than fifteen years now. A fixation betrayed by a dozen or so unused bags, each loved intensely for a time, then tossed to the side of the road like a sex crime, abandoned in favor of another.
My hauling needs...
What's in your bag, Sam Sheffer?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Sam Sheffer.
I commute from New Jersey to New York City five days a week, which means that traveling as light as possible is a top priority for me. My job requires me to have some sort of laptop with an internet connection, and that's about it. What you'll find below are the...
What's in your bag, Kimber Streams?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring Kimber Streams.
When looking for a new piece of tech, my ultimate goal is to find something that works and is as future-proof as anything in this realm can possibly be. Sometimes I'm spot on, and sometimes I miss, but no matter what, I stick with it, for better or for worse.
...Photography & Video
What's in your bag, Lytro's Eric Cheng?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're branching out beyond the safe waters of The Verge to feature Lytro's Eric Cheng.
Eric Cheng is Director of Photography at Lytro, the company behind the next-generation Lytro camera. He also works as an underwater photographer and is owner and publisher of Wetpixel.com, a community...
What's in your bag, Ellis Hamburger?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring the esteemed Ellis Hamburger.
Have you heard? Backpacks are back! They're stylish, functional, and full of things that communicate what kind of person you are. Here's what kind of person I am based on things in a bag. For the most part, I like to keep things simple, paying next...
What's in your bag, Laura June?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring the esteemed Laura June.
About a year ago, I stopped carrying a purse. I also started having to go to an office a lot more. I’m also quite lazy. This combination of events has led to a pretty severe case of minimalism, but it’s one that I’m really happy with. These are...
What's in your bag, Ross Miller?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring the esteemed Ross Miller.
In about three days, I'll be on plane heading to Los Angeles for E3, where I and a ragtag team of Verge editors (not to mention the entire Polygon army) will spend a week experimenting with coffee-flavored (trust me here) IV drips and checking out the...
What's in your bag, Jordan Oplinger?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring one of our esteemed video directors and editors, Jordan Oplinger.
In Jason Reitman’s 2009 critically-acclaimed-but-Oscar snubbed masterpiece, Up in the Air, George Clooney’s character challenges the audience to audit their lives by utilizing a backpack metaphor. Now, while...
What's in your bag, Dante D'Orazio?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post. This week, we're featuring the esteemed Dante D'Orazio.
What you’re looking at here is what I carry in my bag everyday. This is what I take with me from my apartment to my desk at the Verge’s New York City office; this is the bare minimum that I carry, and is therefore what I hold most near and dear....
What's in your bag, Thomas Houston?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
Because I walk or bike several miles a day around New York, I prefer to keep my bag and its contents as light as possible. I used to carry a ton of extra papers, notes, USB chargers, and extra devices, but I've somehow been able to keep my setup pretty streamlined and clean. That way, I can still throw...
What's in your bag, Adi Robertson?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
I grew up shopping at thrift stores, which meant that I was constantly surrounded by a haphazard mix of things that didn't really go together in any meaningful way, but were cheap and readily available. Even though I now own a large number of modern consumer electronics, I never really got past that...
Gaming
What's in your bag, Chris Grant?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
Want to know what it's like being a globe-trotting video game journalist? Geoff Keighley wasn't available so I thought I'd give you a look at what I pack in my bag when I'm covering an event or even just spending a day in the NYC offices. But this is the sanitized, PG-rated look inside my bag. What's...
What's in your bag, Chris Welch?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
What you're seeing here are the various items I carry during the daily commute to our Verge office in Manhattan. Initially I'd been doing just fine using a nice Tumi messenger bag as a carryall, but there came a point when it simply couldn't hold everything I needed; having no logical place to put my...
What's in your bag, Joshua Topolsky?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
This is a look inside my travel / event bag setup. Day-to-day, I don't carry everything you see in the piece below, but I wanted to give readers an idea of what I take to cover events, or when I'm on the road. I would ultimately prefer to not carry a bag at all, since the only thing I hate more than...
What's in your bag, Jeff Blagdon?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
Be prepared — it’s the Boy Scout motto and something I’ve taken to heart over the years in Japan. I like to be able to carry a lot of stuff if the need arises, and this Visvim Ballistic 20L backpack (see below) is like a bottomless pit. The internal frame (a hard plastic back panel) makes heavy...
What's in your bag, Sam Byford?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
Travel light, move fast. Years of living in Japan have conditioned me to always try and get the most out of small spaces, and that's reflected in my choice of baggage. This Porter by Yoshida sling bag goes with me almost everywhere, and while it's fairly tiny, my love of thin technology has given it a...
What's in your bag, Nilay Patel?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
You're looking at my everyday work bag, a Kata 3N1-33. I am in deep "like" with this bag; after years of trying new bags at every opportunity I know it's as close to perfect as I can get, but I am constantly haunted by the idea of something better. It can also hold a lot more than what's pictured here...
What's in your bag, Joanna Stern?
What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. Show us your bag in this forum post.
You're looking at what I call my "event bag." Before a press event or business trip, I dump everything out of my usual everyday bag (a Hayden-Harnett Ibiza Flight Tote, if you must know), pull out the Ogio backpack, and stock it up (each and every pocket) with the tech I need. On the particular day this...
