Fall is the Time For New Carry-On Bags

As someone who occasionally travels by air for business, I’m used to the chore of unpacking my computer at security for x-raying, as well as the regular worry that someone will walk off with my laptop or that it will be squashed in a luggage pile-up.

So, I was very pleased to see this bit of news in the New York Times:

The Transportation Security Administration has given the go-ahead for passengers to use newly designed carry-on bags that will let them pass through security without having to take their laptops out for the X-ray inspection.[…]

Two of the biggest luggage manufacturers — Pathfinder Luggage and Targus — say they are rushing to produce the new “checkpoint friendly” laptop cases and expect them to be available by late September or early October. […]

Pathfinder is making two models but plans others. One is a briefcase in which the attached laptop holder is exposed when the case is unzipped. The other is a wheeled carry-on with a removable laptop case.

OK…so that doesn’t sound too terribly different than some carry-on designs I’ve seen previously.  However, presumably we’ll need to have the magic TSA-blessed logo on our bags if we don’t want to have to bare our computers.   So, I’ll probably be shopping for a new bag this fall.