QuikShell Modular Backpack: Pack Only What You Need

Posted by Mike Richard on February 15, 2008
Filed under: Gear, Sidelines

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It’s like a Thule roof rack for your car, but not. A modular backpack design seems so obvious, I’m surprised no one’s thought of it before.

Modular Backpack

The QuikShell bag is a modular concept that snaps on only what you need. For example, you could have one module for rock climbing, one for base jumping, and one for snowboarding.

Modular Backpack

You just snap on which ever module you need to the strap skeleton which comes with comfy padded shoulder straps and pockets for extra goodies.

Modular Backpack

Granted it’s only a concept, but a pretty smart concept at that, no? What do you think? Could this be the future of adventure and sport backpacks?

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Brian
February 15th, 2008 - 12:25 pm

It is a pretty cool idea, but is it really practical? Why not just have a bunch of backpacks? All you’re really doing is making the straps removable, and possibly losing some of adjustments of single piece bag.

Granted, being able to clip things in that don’t have straps seems like a good idea, but I don’t think its worth modularizing the bags themselves.


Tex
February 17th, 2008 - 9:34 am

Meh. Jack of all trades, master of none. To have enough stability, seems like it could make some configurations needlessly heavy, too.