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Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions.

The WP Standard Vintage Leather Messenger Bag is a few years old. It helped launch the Whipping Post brand six years ago. I&ve used mine for about three years and italways been fantastic because the leather is amazing. The WP Standard Vintage Leather Messenger Bag is truly a wonderful bag.

It starts with the design. Itsimple and a nod to the classic postmanbag of generations ago. But instead of mail, itdesigned to carry a laptop. Therea main interior pocket thatlarge enough to hold notebook or rangefinder, but not a DSLR. The interior laptop sleeve is padded by with extra thick leather and therean attached clip for keys (every bag needs this).

The backside features a so-called newspaper pocket. This is a classic feature. Itnothing fancy but just a large, thin pocket that spans the backside of the bag. Itjust thick enough to hold a newspaper folded in half.

I carried this bag nearly daily for several years and itheld up fine. The leather looks worn but not dingy. Like a good pair of jeans, the leather has stretched and molded to the space of my 15-inch MacBook Pro, notebooks and camera I carry. To be clear, the interior pocket is larger than it was when I first got it but it doesn&t look stretched out, just used.

There is one downside to this bag: The shoulder strap is not comfortable because of the leather. After years of use, the leather on the shoulder strap pad is now smooth and unable to stay in place on my shoulder. It just slides around when I walk and itmuch worse when I wear a nylon coat. I&ve resorted to sliding the pad out of the way and using the leather strap which still has texture of raw leather on one side.

At $295 the bag is priced accordingly for the fantastic material and build. Ita great bag to carry a few things and it will always be noticed. I have yet to see a bag as beautiful as the Vintage Leather Messenger Bag. If more space is needed, WP Standard now has a larger option that looks equally as good in the $310 Large Messenger Bag though I haven&t seen the bag in person yet.

Photos taken in the sunny lobby of the Mendeli Street Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel where they make a fantastic cold coffee.

A lot has been said about the coming future of wearables, but, it turned out, not a heck of a lot took off. It seemed most of us were happy with ‘wearing& a smartwatch and leaving it at that. In fact, Applerecent announcements around the Apple Watch show that ‘wearables& are not really about just wearing something with electronics embedded, but really about health.

Now, we know that the home fitness market and wellness market is not going anywhere. And yet we still have an obesity issue in the world. What if what we wore could help us with that, while we exercise

Thatthe idea behind Wearable X, the New York-based startup which launched last year with the &Nadi X&. This is a collection of smart yoga apparel with woven-in technology. They claim this can identify the various yoga poses and provide users with real-time feedback via gentle vibrations. Nadi X comes with a companion iPhone app and device, called The Pulse. The Pulse is where the battery and Bluetooth module clips behind the upper left knee so as not to interfere with your yoga practice.

The company is now launching a Kickstarter campaign for four new designs, including a menswear line and redesigned user-friendly app with enhanced features.

Founder - CEO Billie Whitehouse says: &With Nadi X you not only have convenience but haptics increase reaction time and make you feel more accountable not only through the instant reaction but also through the progress tracking. Our data is more sophisticated than most because we have 5 data points. Most only have one. Single data is what I call ‘dirty data&. Itjust not a thorough look at the true movements that are taking place.&

The new features include progress tracking, customizable playlist &yoga flows& whereby the user can create a truly personalized practice and yoga practice incentives. Itnotable that last year yoga pants outsold denim worldwide.

It's almost time for the kick-off of Tunisia vs England. And in a very fortunate bit of scheduling for their respective fans, the teams’ first World Cup 2018 match starts at a very sociable 7pm BST in Volograd, Russia. So although you probably won’t have to scramble for a live stream in the office, below we’ll tell you exactly how to watch a Tun