Among the(really hidden) blessings of quarantine is having the ability to catch up on years of popular culture that I missed. For the past few months, I’ve been consumed with The Area book series and television show.
If you, like me, have actually been living under a rock, The Area(binge it here) is the revolutionary tv phenomenon that has actually been making WIRED writers lose our collective shit for the previous five years The team of the spaceship Rocinante travel around space, dealing with interplanetary strife in a lived-in universe that hews to real clinical principles.
In a current Gizmo Laboratory podcast episode, my associate Alan Henry informed me that the distinct duffels in The Stretch are not props. They’re real You can buy them! They’re called Tarmac EPO duffel bags, and they’re made by OnSight, a technical bag maker based in British Columbia. They were on sale, so I bought a 100- liter version as my brand-new equipment duffel (and also to cosplay as Naomi Nagata).
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I brought it on an outdoor camping trip last weekend, and, reader: It was so excellent that I came home and immediately bought another one. Thank you, The Stretch You have actually helped me much more than you know.
When I asked OnSight’s manager of organisation advancement and marketing, Jens Ourom, how the duffels had shown up in The Stretch, he said he had no idea. “Often these orders enter and we do not even know they’re planned for production. It’s at the point where in some cases we’re simply as stunned as anyone to see them appear on a program,” Ourom stated.
It’s Earth-Friendly
If you take part in any gear-intensive sports, you’re most likely acquainted with expedition duffels. They’re big, big, typically waterproof bags that have big openings and no compartments so you can pack them full of weird-sized equipment.
My partner and I have shared an ancient Mountain Hardwear exploration duffel for several years ( comparable to this one) to keep our snowboarding, surfing, and outdoor camping equipment together in the automobile. With the arrival of our 2 children, we needed another one to transport their tiny camping chairs, small sleeping bags, and 3 thousand stuffed animals.
