Skooba Design, the company formerly known as RoadWired, continues to crank out new bag designs and as usual, I'm keen to review them being the bag fanatic that I am. They were among the first companies to release a line of airport security checkpoint-friendly bags, which caught my attention. As someone who always travels with a laptop, I was curious to see if this really would make things easier going through security, so I requested one of their Checkthrough Brief bags, a $139.95 USD bag that comes only in black. I knew it was a sizable bag (17"L x 13"H x 7.5"D, 48 ounces) based on the number of pockets and pouches, so when I traveled to Seattle in November of 2009 for Mobius, I had it crammed full of gadgets. How did the bag work for me? Keep reading - especially since there's a special 20% off coupon for Digital Home Thoughts readers.

Figure 1: The outside front-left pocket has an elastic pouch perfect for items of middling thickness such as a point and shoot digital camera. There's also a mesh pouch for thin items such as paperwork. Alternatively, this is where you'd store the included plastic bag for your travel fluids - you know, the ones that are restricted for carry-on now. Check out the Skooba Design photo gallery for images of what this looks like.

Figure 2: The outside front-right pocket has an elastic pouch perfect for a passport and a folded boarding pass. There's also two pen/pencil holders. I was pleased to see only two and not four as some older Skooba Design bags had.

Figure 3: Above the two front pouches, there's a larger pouch. It has two loose-fitting storage areas up top, and a larger storage area below.

Figure 4: Gadgets gone wild! On the inside of the first major zippered area is where you can store your gizmos - there are four elastic pouches along the top, each wide enough for an MP3 player, smartphone, several cables per pouch, etc. Below that there are two sizeable zippered pouches.

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