Cool invention: Scanner Bag
Ira Goldman has done it again. The inventor of the Knee Defender, a clever device that prevents the passenger in front of you from leaning into your personal space, has just released a new product that promises to expedite your trip through a TSA checkpoint.
The Scanner Bag (price: $14.85 to $24.85) looks like a large luggage tag, and it is a fully-functioning tag.
But instead of carrying just a card with your address and phone number, there’s also a fold-out pouch to accommodate your Blackberry, coins, cellphone, iPod, jewelry and keys — in other words, all the items you would otherwise have to place in one of those plastic trays at the checkpoint and feed through the conveyor belt.
As someone who just lost an item at security (a belt clip for my cellphone) I can see lots of practical uses for the Scanner Bag. Not only do you keep your valuable items in one place, but the chances of losing anything are now reduced considerably.
Goldman says there wasn’t an “a-ha!” moment in which the idea for the Scanner Bag came to him. “It was something that evolved as I was thinking about a new luggage concept,” he told me.
But why ask why? The new Scanner Bag is pure genius.
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Sorry but I have to feel that yet one more bag is a very bad idea. I always keep my small items in an outside pocket on my carryon and have never been asked for a closer examination yet. WHY YET ANOTHER BAG ! especially since airlines are limiting us to one carryon and one small additional bag. What if we are already carrying the limit? Lugging an extra bag for an entire trip just for those few seconds at security just doesn’t seem to make sense.
I don’t think Mr. Royse read the article! Seems like a pretty handy idea for the things you want to access immediately (wallet, jewelry, phone/blackberry) after clearing the TSA guys.
I agree with Mr. Royse: a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
I like to wear a jacket or vest with zip-up pockets. While waiting to check in, I transfer everything to the vest (doing it at check-in means I automatically check for my pocket knife and can put it in check-in luggage). Then at security, the vest goes on the conveyor, I go through, I pick up the vest and I go.
I can see a niche market for this product, though as some other readers have noted, it’s an option, not a must-have.
For many years I’ve placed all my metallic items that are in my pockets, my mobile phone, and so forth in a small plastic or cloth bag anyway. Not as chic as this double-duty bag, sure, but it serves its purpose just fine. Besides, even a very nice cloth bag is very inexpensive.