Citing the "tremendous amount of interest" generated when the Transportation Security Administration put out a request for proposal s on designed for notebook computer bags that could be permitted to pass through airport security without requiring passengers to remove the computers, Skooba Design is showing off some preliminary information on its forthcoming "Checkpoint-Friendly" notebook bags it expects to make available by the end of summer 2008. The verdict seems to be that checkpoint-friendly bags will keep your notebook covered…and do very little else. Although Skooba is quick to point out that none of its designs (or any checkpoint-friendly designs from other makers) carry any stamp of approval or endorsement from the TSA, the idea is that these notebook bags should be transparent to X-ray systems and other scanning technologies so security officers can scan the bags without having to remove the notebooks. However, this also seems to mean there's little or no space for peripherals like power adapters, cables, USB devices and other common accouterments of a traveling notebook users.
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