I love the wall backpack when memes as
much as anyone. But as much as you love them, they're over. The LTT Store
backpack is finally here. Every stitch,
every zipper was painstakingly considered to make this the tech bag and
we are going to go through absolutely everything that makes this final version
of it utterly unique. And this detailed
look at our first unit off the mass production line is brought to you by
Shopify, who offers the easy to use all-in-one commerce platform that powers
ltttore.com, where you can put in an order for this backpack right now. Let's
begin with the outside because basically every pack that I've ever owned has
failed in one of three places. Either
here, here,
or here. So, each of those has been either double or triple reinforced to
the point where we're actually going to do a video showcasing this. You could
tow a car by the handle of this backpack and it would not tear off. The top
handle is triple riveted into place. The seams for the ARM straps are reinforced.
The bottom of the ARM straps have reinforced seams and rivets so that they
cannot
cannot come out. And our size adjustments, I don't know why nobody
does this, are metal rather than plastic, so they will never break down.
An added benefit is that the teeth are nice and sharp. So once it's in place,
IT WILL NOT SLIP. NOW, I USE A BACKPACK AT TRADE SHOWS, and I'm a bit of a
sweaty boy. So, a major consideration for us was the shape and depth of the
ribs on the back so that you can actually get a little bit of air flow
through, not just around your back and along your spine, but also on the
shoulder straps. Cuz I take off my backpack at the end of the day, it's like stain, stain, stain. It's pretty
nasty. One of the other ways we deviated from standard backpack designs is the
spacing of the ARM straps. I would often end up with chafing marks on the sides
of my neck after a long day of wearing a heavy backpack. Not so with ours. We
adjusted both the width and the angle so that they sit comfortably on the
shoulders and don't like kind of fall
back and pull back with a gap back here rather than rubbing on your neck. One of
the bits of feedback we got from our first couple of prototypes was that
people really wanted to see a luggage strap. But we didn't want the luggage
strap to be permanent because I wanted that ventilation on the back, right? So,
we came up with this detachable luggage strap piece here. It's strong enough
thanks to the Velcro straps that it won't fall off your bag. But if you're
not into it and you don't want to use it, all you got to do is fold it up.
actually don't need to do quarters into halves and it fits perfectly in the RFID
blocking passport pocket. We made it deeper so that it would accommodate this
because the idea was that if you're traveling, you probably have your
passport in here and your luggage strap on. And if you're not traveling, you can
tuck your luggage strap in here. It goes all the way across the back so that it
sits centered and doesn't bother your back cuz it'll sit right in the small.
The outer fabric is called Reprieve. It's made of recycled water bottles and
it's abrasion resistant, tear resistant, as well as water resistant. It's not
waterproof. I wouldn't take your bag and dunk it into water with all your
valuable electronics in it. But if you get caught out in the rain, the Reprieve
fabric plus our use of YKK waterproof
zippers is going to go a long way towards keeping your electronics and
anything else safe and dry. Of course, standard abrasion resistance wasn't
enough for a careless boy like me. I get home at the end of the day, I'm like,
"See you later, backpack." So, this is
another point of failure I've seen before. The entire bottom of the bag is
double layered. You manage to wear through this dragging your bag around,
there's a whole other layer there for you. The internal volume is 25.5 L with
a total volume of 35 L, meaning that it
fits absolutely perfectly under the seat
in front of you on the airplane. And if you're the kind of person who wants to
pile in even more stuff, say for example on the webbing here, here,
here, and at the front, we
have a removable chest strap that comes installed by default, but that can be
easily taken off if you prefer to not have it. There's a little slit in here,
and you just put the strap back in place. It sits like that, and then it's
hidden away when you don't want to use it. Not everybody's into that whole scene. I get it. It's a little tricky to
get in, but the benefit is that it won't ever come off by accident. Oh, yeah, and
it has a small elastic, and that's just to make it a little bit more comfortable
when you're moving around. Now's as good a time as any to mention the carabiner
zipper pulls that we had custom done. They got little LTS on them and
everything. The idea here was to make it a little less convenient for someone to
roll up and open up your bag or if you're like me and you have maybe like a
a racket sticking out or let's say you've got a battery bank that you want
to store in this pocket right here and
then cable manage up to your phone that you're charging in this pocket over
here, for example. It'll allow you to have it ever so slightly open to make
space for it, but not risk having your bag just casually open up. I mean, with
the quality of these zippers, it's very unlikely, but every element of the
design was for today and for 10 years
from now. This isn't actually my typical loadout, though. So, let's go ahead and
start filling this thing up with the kind of stuff that I would normally put in it. We'll start at the back where
it's pretty typical for a backpack these days to have a laptop slot or a tablet
slot or even a slot for another electronic device. But what about all
three? I usually daily drive a 13.3 to
14in laptop. And you can see it'll accommodate one of those fine just fine.
But I know that for some of you 15.6 or
even 17 is more the way you like to roll. So we made sure that we could
accommodate that as well. Now, something you might notice when you get the
backpack is that we don't actually have a pad at the bottom of a laptop sleeve,
but that is by design. The way that all these layers of sleeving for your iPad
with the hey, something else with a screen on it, who cares? Slip my fold in
there. The way that they all get sewn together adds a natural cushion due to
the way that the seams come together. So, when the laptop bag gets filled,
it's absorbed so it doesn't actually just hit the surface down below it. This
chunky pocket right here was designed to accommodate even very large chargers.
You can see that's why it goes so low. And then I really like to keep a power
bank or some other kind of accessory here. One of the early considerations
for the design was portable gaming handhelds. Like say for example, ah yes,
it's a little bit back heavy right now cuz it's uh got nothing in the front and
it's completely open. Let's go ahead and put this in here. This pocket opens up
nice and wide just so that you can get at the very bottom if you need to. And
during the design process for this bag, Valve announced the steam deck, but
didn't announce that they were going to be shipping it with a carrying case. So,
we actually recjiggered the bottom down here to make it so that if you really
wanted to, you could put a steam deck down at the bottom. And we have another
screen safe soft fabric panel stitched in at the bottom to make sure that it's
not going to scratch your screen. So, I've got a grand total of four
electronic devices in here, and it's not even breaking a sweat. If you have a
larger power brick, say for example, one like this for a really chunky laptop, or
one like this for a super extra chunky laptop. Let's see. We did manage to get
enough height clearance in here, even for that boy. Uh, you might want to use
this second pocket here for your power cable that goes into the wall. That was
actually why we put it there, but that doesn't really apply to me. So, I'll
keep a battery bank in there and I'll just Ah, yes. The thing that delayed the
backpack past the back to school season, the Air Tag pocket. I was like, do we
really need an air tag pocket? And then I was like, yeah, we do. So, right here
inside the lower down zipper where the water bottle holder is, there's a teeny
tiny little pocket stitched right there. It's easy enough for you to get at, but
hidden away enough that if someone were to casually search your bag, it is
unlikely that they would notice it there. Obviously, compatibility with our
own products, our 21 oz and 40 oz water bottles, was imperative. So, we designed
this elastic stretchy water bottle holder that will keep your bottle
upright in your bag and hold it securely whether you prefer the small boy or the
40 oz guy. Look at that. Now, I could
imagine some people looking at the main compartment of this bag and thinking,
"Gee, you guys kind of didn't put a lot of organization pockets in there."
That's by design. Another one of the big challenges that I've had with other bags
that I've owned in the past is that there was nowhere to put really bulky
stuff. I often use my bag as an overnight bag or even a twoight bag. So,
I want to be able to put in a couple pairs of boxers, couple pairs of socks,
pair of pants or two, couple t-shirts. And having somewhere where you can just
kind of pack everything in where it doesn't impede your ability to access
all of the other organizational pockets in the bag is freaking awesome. That was
two beach towels and a hoodie. And I'm not even close to done yet. Got my iix
it kit. Let's throw in a mouse pad. Also from ltstore.com.
Call this the compartment of holding. That's what it does.
Let's put some strain on these zippers. Show these folks how it's done. Do we
have a scale? Okay, we're up to 23 lb. Not bad, but we
can do better. Unfortunately, not all of my devices are USB type-C yet. So, one
of the things that I like to keep in this side pocket here is a USB microB
charging cable for my Gro wireless super
light. Go ahead and pack that in there. And then we make our way around to the
front. The sunglass holder is something we agonized over. If we had gone with a
super hard plastic shell in the inside liner, then obviously it would offer the
best protection, but it would take away from the internal volume of our pocket
of holding and it would be a little bit harder to get things in and out of it.
Oh, shoot. I missed something in the bag of holding, right? There's like an
organizational pocket of holding there, too. Just a nice big one. Anything I
like to have quick access to, like my two and a half gig network adapter, my
USBC to type A, the water cooling fitting I use when I'm desperate,
business cards, and my type-C dongle.
There we go. Sorry. Sorry. Back to the sunglass holder. If we went too soft,
well, you'd risk crush damage to your glasses just from having the bag full.
So, what we settled on was this film. It's like a stiff film that goes under
the super soft liner. So, you can put them in in whatever way works best for
the natural shape of your glasses. Mine actually seemed to cooperate best. Just
kind of looking up at me a little bit. Something like that. And then let's uh
put some more strain on our zippers here, shall we? Our last pocket is the
one that we probably made the most revisions to over the course of
finishing up the design. This is a really funny one. Keeping with our philosophy that all of our products
should work well together, we extended
this pocket and shortened this one to ensure that there would be a place to
put our screwdriver. But then we realized that if you were to put something like an SSD in there, unless
you have the world's tiniest hands, you'd have absolutely no hope whatsoever
of retrieving it. So, we added a little zipper. Make sure you can get stuff out
of the bottom of this pocket if you want to. But really, what it's for is a tool
like a screwdriver, which will also be available soon. I like using this one
for thumb drives, uh, SSDs, anything
that I want to keep nice and safe. This is where my little light goes. put my
headphones and my JerryRrig Everything knife right here. Nice easy access to
those. And then this one. Boy, did we ever debate this guy. We were thinking
of doing this as a uh three-way zipper
this way. So, it would fold down like this. The nice thing about that approach
would have been that you would just take these, put them halfway down, and kind
of flap it open. So, the drawback of the way we did it is that if you've got a
lot of weight in here, it can kind of sag. But the advantage of this way is
that you will never accidentally dump the contents out. So, we settled on
going this way. And I'll show you how I like to use it. So, I've got like, you
know, some extra paper towels, mask, my
side cutters, some pliers. And the way that I typically use it is like this.
I'll just open it up like halfway along the bottom. And that way I can access
everything inside this pocket, everything in here, and it doesn't sag
even with all that weight on it. 25
1/2 lb. That's a lot of weight. But
what's really cool is that all the time and thought that we put into the
positioning of the straps, the angle, the shape of the back panel, it's
already paying off because at the pop-up shop we did where we sold the first 50
units of the bag, we had people show up with their existing backpack full of
heavy stuff, load it all into the LTT backpack, and they were like, "Huh, it's
actually not as hard to carry anymore." more. And you can see that in the reviews on the site. Oh, Andy asked me
to make this joke. It's It's so big. It can store a car.
Haha. Haha. Oh, right. This webbing on the front. This was from a shoot. I
needed to carry a walkie-talkie and I needed to use my hands. I was like,
there's nowhere to put a walkie-talkie on the front of this bag. Thankfully,
make my own bag. So, this is so you can put a walkie-talkie or uh some kind of
navigation instrument or whatever the case may be if you want to take it out for a day, go on a hike or something
like that. Want to try the fully loaded one, Belle? Oo,
don't oversell it. No, the padding on this is super nice,
though. So, the key with padding is not how
thick it is. It's actually how firm it is. The early samples that we got used a
really thick but really squishy padding. And what happens with the squishy
padding is that you go through it and then there's no padding. So that's why
counterintuitively the padding on the ARM straps is
actually like really hard to compress. It's a lot of freaking weight in here.
But we passed all the durability tests that we submitted to third parties with
absolutely flying colors. It's a super super durable bag and you can buy yours
on ltstore.com. Massive shout out to Shopify. They've
been a great partner through all of this. So, I have no idea what the talking points are, but we use Shopify
to a build our site, b monitor all of our analytics, c run things like the
pop-up shop. They have physical hardware so that you can take payment in person.
Uh you don't just have to use them as an e-commerce platform. And they've been
absolutely instrumental in helping us get products like this, the screwdriver,
t-shirts, whatever else it is to market. So, shout out Shopify for sponsoring the
video. And uh yeah, let's let's keep working together, boys. Our Canadian
bros. If you're curious about starting a business, you can try Shopify for 14
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I'm going to pull out everything we put in this bag and a couple of other things that I slipped in. That's a big towel.
Oh, did I say there were two towels in before? It was one.
And yes, your air tag. See, totally forgot about it. The system works. Here
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