The original Anti-theft backpack’s creators made a new travel-case that literally doubles in size

Chances are you’ve come across some version of the Bobby Anti-theft backpack sometime in your life. Launched in early 2016, the Bobby outlined the framework for the world’s first backpack designed to deter theft. Featuring a hidden zipper that was strategically placed close to your back, the Bobby was designed to be very difficult to break into… and stealthily opening it while someone wore the backpack was borderline impossible. With over 10,000 backers, the Bobby became an instant hit (and I’ll admit I even saw a whole bunch of knockoffs who tried to ride on its success).

XD Design, the creators of the first anti-theft backpack, bring their iconic aesthetic and theft-proof format to two new types of bags – the travel-case, and the gym-bag. The Flex Foldable Trolley & Flex Gym Bag come after years of research and experience in the backpack and bag domain. Designed with the same sort of focus in mind, but for two completely different use-cases, the Flex Foldable Trolley & Flex Gym Bag are made to look simple, sophisticated, and to be secure.

The Flex Foldable Trolley is your cabin-sized travel-case redefined. With a slim design, the trolley can either be wheeled or carried like a briefcase, and an expanding section allows it to virtually double your storage from 15 liters to 30 liters. Designed with the ideal dimensions for commuting to and from work, or a 2-day business trip, the Flex Foldable Trolley fits your 15.6″ laptop, and is the perfect size to carry with you into a flight cabin. Built for easy-traveling, the trolley-case comes with secure YKK zippers and a TSA lock. The laptop sits in an easy-to-access compartment, allowing you to easily pop it out as you rapidly go through security check. The easy-access compartment even comes with a magnetically fastened transparent case for your liquids, and an RFID-blocking pouch for your passport, boarding pass, and other essentials. Open the Flex Foldable Trolley’s main container and it’s spacious enough to get you through 2-3 days worth of traveling. The slim format is perfect for shorter trips, and the expanded design is wide enough to even fit a spare pair of shoes. The main container even packs an organizer-board with multiple webbed pockets, letting you separate smaller items from the bulk of your luggage. For added convenience, the Flex Foldable Trolley even packs a USB port that allows you to connect a power-bank on the inside and charge your phones by simply plugging it into the bag. Just like the original Anti-theft backpack, the Flex Foldable Trolley features hidden zippers, a reflective patch on the front panel, and an overall waterproof construction for added safety.

If the Flex Foldable Trolley is perfect for long-distance trips, the Flex Gym Bag is perfect for hitting your nearby gym right after a work-day. It looks like your average laptop bag, but open up the pouch on the front and it transforms from a slim, 16-liter backpack to a spacious duffle with over 24 liters of storage. The best part about this transformation is that it isn’t an expansion. The duffle exists as a separate compartment to the backpack, thus separating your work-essentials from your gym-essentials. The main storage of the Flex Gym Bag allows you to stash a 15.6″ laptop along with other work essentials in a spacious interior. For smaller items, the bag comes with pockets and mesh-pouches to help organize your stuff, while a separate RFID-blocking compartment on the outside is perfect for storing your phone, wallet, and other prized belongings. The pouch rests within the padded back-panel of the bag, ensuring nobody can ever access it as long as you’re wearing the bag. Even when the bag isn’t ON you, the hidden zippers (a standard feature in all of XD Design’s backpacks) make it difficult for strangers to really figure out how to open your bag. Pair this with the signature reflective tab on the front, and a waterproof construction throughout and you’ve seriously got yourself a bag that looks absolutely slick, with its matte-black finish, and gives you everything you need, from dedicated storage to anti-theft features, expanding sizes, and a weather-proof overall build.

Designer: XD Design

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Flex Foldable Trolley & Flex Gym Bag by XD Design

The Flex Foldable Trolley & Flex Gym Bag are made to be anti-theft, sustainable and above all, flexible in shape and usage.

The Flex Foldable Trolley

The first business suitcase and carry-on trolley in one luggage. The unique foldable design allows you to save up to 50% of space or to expand the trolley with 50%. Easily adaptable for all kinds of trips.

Flexible in shape and usage.

Easily charge your phone with the integrated USB charging port.

The front opening gives you quick access to your electronic devices and to your toiletry items that can be stored in the complementary transparent liquid bag.

The organizing board stores small items and compresses your clothes with adjutsable webbings and a magnetic Fidlock click system.

The Flex Gym Bag

The first business backpack and gym bag in one gear.

Quickly convert from business to gym style just by expanding the front pocket.

Carry your professional items in the main compartment and carry your gym necessities in the front pocket.

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Made of 45% bio-based material, this solar phone charger imitates a sunflower!

Everyone loves a bunch of pretty flowers and sunflowers are one of my favorites, I do wonder why I haven’t received any. Guess XD Design felt the same since sunflowers were the inspiration for their ‘Sunshine Solar Charger’. Yes, the charger looks like a bunch of sunflowers facing towards the sun, and they do so because they make use of solar energy and not electricity to charge your phones!

Equipped with a 2600mAh rechargeable lithium battery that stores all that sun-sourced energy, the solar charger transfers it to your mobile device or tablet, boosting them up with some juice. Integrated solar panels at the center of the flowers and an impressive resound material combination make this charger like no other.

However, things get even more ‘greener’ if I may say so! Created using 45% bio-based material derived from plants instead of oil, the manufacturing process behind the Sunshine Solar Charger is pretty eco-friendly too. The biomaterial of choice was corn residue, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 35% as compared to products derived from plastic. Seems like sustainability was a priority in designing and planning every aspect of the Sunshine Solar Charger. Resembling a bouquet of beautiful sunflowers, this solar charger is sure to add some floral fun to your desk!

Designer: XD Design

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This Bag has Three-factor Security!

The guys at XD Design have a reputation of building some of the most criminal-confusing bags. Their bags are designed to cater to the user’s style statement and safety equally. These bags are not only beautiful to look at, they’re bafflingly difficult to get into, without the consent of the owner. The original Bobby backpack’s design sought to make the bag impenetrable by pushing the zipper closer to the wearer, making it difficult to access if someone was wearing the bag. The revised version, titled the Bobby Urban, puts the zipper in an even more confounding position, and secures the bag’s contents in a cut-proof fabric.

Committed to their motto of making the world’s most theft-resistant bags, the Bobby Urban comes with a concealed zipper, further made safer by a steel reinforced combination lock. The bag comes with a roll-top design that not only hides the zipper, it also allows you to control the bag’s inner capacity by determining how much you roll the top. Once the zipper is secure, snap shut the combination lock for added protection. Aside from providing a second layer of security, the combination lock can even be used to fasten the bag to an immovable object like a bench or a lamppost as you would with a bicycle. With the zip inaccessible, the lock unbreakable, and the fabric un-rippable, the only conceivable way to break into the bag would be with the aid of heavy machinery.

The Bobby Urban’s roll-top design gives it a whopping 27 liters of capacity when unrolled, making it perfect for everything from your everyday commute to long travels, allowing you to increase or decrease the bag’s size depending on need. A compartmentalized interior allows you to segregate items, while any extra/bulky items can be tethered to the outside using the additional netting provided. Looking at the term theft through a much wider lens, not only is the bag physically impenetrable, it even comes with an RFID secure pocket too, deterring digital theft as well.

With its signature combination of style, storage, and security (not necessarily in that order), the Bobby Urban may just literally be the most theft-proof backpack in the consumer market. Every single day, 400,000 incidents of pickpocketing occur worldwide. This backpack remains committed to making sure you’re never a part of that statistic!

Designer: Sheng Peng Zhao of XD Design

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The Criminal-Confusing Carry-on!

Zippers… a designer’s mortal enemy. They’re hideous, painful, and not particularly secure. Yet we can’t live without them. They’re on our jeans, jackets, and bags. Now while jeans and jackets aren’t much of a threat, zips on bags are rather vulnerable to being picked. Hell, sometimes I forget to even zip my bag, or the zip breaks, which is sort of asking for trouble.

The immediate thing one notices about the Bobby Anti-Theft Backpack is its rather beautiful design that features not one single zip. The bag is fabric through and through, so while it looks great, it also throws the thief off guard because they’ll be struggling to find the opening!

The Bobby was designed just like a regular backpack, but with one crucial rearrangement. The zip still exists, but it stays concealed, and can only be accessed from the back of the bag rather than the front. It stays concealed behind a sleeve and completely hidden from sight, but only you know that secret. The backpack’s overall design aim was to be robust and reliable. Aside from the hidden zips, it comes with a PP inlay in the fabric that gives it structure while also making it slash-proof. The front face is made of a water-repellent, stain-proof fabric that gives the bag a color contrast, and a rather iconic line on the bottom in the center also serves as a reflective strip for people who commute on bicycles.

Other features of this undeniably iconic looking bag are brilliant compartmentalization. The way the bag opens up feels almost like a briefcase thanks to its sturdy structure, allowing for a rather well-planned inside, with spaces and pockets for all your carry-ables. It even has three hidden instant-access pockets in the straps for things like business cards, or access cards. If all that weren’t already the makes of a superior bag, the Bobby even features a USB port that connects the power bank inside your bag to the phone outside your bag, so you don’t have to fumble through the backpack for a charger in public, effectively giving away the secret way to open your uber-cool theft-deterrent backpack! Go ahead… don’t be a part of the 400,000 people who get their bags or pockets picked per day!

Designer: XD Design

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Solar Sunflower Charger Offers Flower Power

Looking for a solar charger for your gadgets, but want something other than a black box with a solar panel glued to it? Then Check out XD Design’s latest creation – the Solar Sunflower, a gadget charger perfect for those with or without a green thumb.

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Designed to look like a small, potted sunflower, you can place it in a window or bring it with you outside to charge up your mobile devices. It’s got a powerful 2500 mAh rechargeable battery built in, so it’ll hold onto some juice even when the sun goes down. It’s got a USB connector for charging your smartphones and other small gadgets (sorry, no tablets), and a mini-USB input, which I can only assume is for charging its internal battery up without sunlight.

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The Solar Sunflower is available from Design3000 for €59.50 (~$77 USD), and for wholesale purchasers over on XD Design’s website now.

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