For the executive venturing to extreme locales, where power resources may not be readily at hand, there's the solar-powered laptop bag, built by Voltaic Systems.

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In Inhabitat news this week, we announced the 40 finalists in our design-a-laptop-bag contest that we partnered on with HP.

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Teams might talk about whether they want to cut that down from the size of a standard school backpack to something such as a laptop carrying bag.

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In other words, they are not worth the weight of toting them around airports in a computer bag already weighed down by a laptop, workout gear, newspapers and meeting briefings.

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The keyboard unplugs from its cable, and we provide an extra cable that you can keep in your laptop bag, specifically for travel.

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At airport security, you pull your laptop out if its bag, and (nightmare of nightmares) you drop it by mistake, cracking the screen and ruining the hard drive.

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