For a commuter living in a rainy environment, SealLine’s Urban Backpack could be a great solution for transporting stuff and keeping it dry. The carrier is made of seamless, polyurethane-coated ...

• Small 1 lb. 13 oz. • Large 2 lbs. 1 oz. It’s getting to be that time of year again and soon a good number of us will either be sending the kiddos off to school, or we’ll be headed there ourselves.

It is obscenely huge. It fastens shut and watertight with a roll-top closure. A backpack harness system lets you strap it on and hike, ferrying immense loads through airports and down backwoods ...