- One term in high school I put a laptop bag strap on a hanging file box and used that as a bag for a semester. It made me nuts that teachers hand you stuff you need to hold on to that has no holes in it, but you're supposed to store it in a 3 ring binder. Everything you are supposed to bring with you to class is the shape of a rectangle, but a backpack is a blob that lets your stuff fall to the bottom. Best grades I ever got. Ended up hurting my back so I went back to a backpack. I got a lot of "why don't you just…" questions for a day or two and then it was chill.
This bag shape seems far superior for the purposes of carrying paper hither and thither than any other bag shape I've seen.
- this was written with at least the help of ai- it’s still a good article and idk if i’m the only one who can tell or we’re beyond the point of needing or wanting or caring to point it out. idk
by LeoPanthera
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- You can watch this NHK World video about the bags. Not made by AI. https://youtu.be/nHcgol5i7gs
by protocolture
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- >That’s not an accident; it was the point.
Article SmeLLMs
- It looks gorgeous. I would love to have one, and I'm not even close to primary school age :D
I loved the making-of video: https://youtu.be/lSochjb6ovI
- Before reading the article I was surprised to find them similar to old german Sout backpacks.
They are really sturdy and durable: your kid needs just one of them for all primary school (grundschule).
They are explensive (not so much considering 3-6 years of continuous abuse by kids), but when the kid gets tired of it, some people put them on sale.
I have one that I know was resold at least 2 times and it still in perfect shape...
Great for airport travel, btw.
- That is nothing. This is what my friends used to carry to school in the early 90s
https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2024/9/451658081/PU...
by booleandilemma
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- For me the iconic school bag will always be the JanSport.
- > The government has taken the issue seriously enough to study it and to encourage lighter materials, reduced textbook carry, and the use of digital teaching tools. Some manufacturers have responded with more synthetics and lighter reinforcements.
I guess they're so married to the traditional design that they just refuse to add a frame and waist strap to offload the weight to your hips.
- A complete and interesting video of the production process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGeKO87nXk
Even the packaging of the final product is beautiful!
- I want one.
Gorgeous
by iLoveOncall
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- I would say that school bags that incorporate kevlar to be bulletproof are much more unlikely actually: https://edcwarehouse.co.uk/product/guard-dog-scout-bulletpro... (there are many other brands)
Funnily enough before opening the article, having heard of the japanese backpacks, I was wondering if it was going to talk about bulletproof ones or japanese ones.
- Only an LLM could liken a first-grader to a scholar: "In a stratified society where the imperial family sat at the symbolic center, that gesture mattered. The randoseru moved, almost overnight, from battlefield to classroom, from soldier’s kit to scholar’s gear." This is an interesting topic, but this kind of AI writing gets very, very grating. Additionally, though this is somewhat unrelated, I feel like LLMs tend to argue points through gaslighting, rather than actual argumentation; they prefer to stack a bunch of tangential, or parallel, evidence and then assert that it proves their point when, in reality, it does not have any logical coherence—unless, perhaps, one reads it at 2am, in which case it might make sense.
- Interesting read. The title made me think of Catholic School Book Bags that everyone in my city who went to Catholic Schools used. Public school kids (me) just carried the books to school, rain, snow or shine. No school busses back then.
I could not find a picture, but there were like small army duffel bags, dark green with a yellow fabric strap. You held the strap and slung the bag over your shoulder.
by reconvene1290
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by ideaforge_00
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- Every generation accidently recreates the same object with newer materials and better marketing. This is basically the modern equivalent of a satchel, except now it comes with aerospace fabric, limited drops, and a Discord server.
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