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An Environmentally Sound Accessory Case for Taming Your Tangle of Cords

Photo credit: Allie Holloway
Photo credit: Allie Holloway

From Esquire

Buy $49.95, incase.com


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Sometimes, just admitting you have a problem is enough. I have too many cords. Like a slithering pile of snakes, the twisting mass has choked my nightstand legs and strangled the floorboards by my bed. It's invaded the Wifi router's space. I am suffocating in cords. Perhaps that's dramatic. I don't think so, not when "by my bed" is one of about three locations I frequent in 2020. The problem has entangled my life, and I mean that not as a cute metaphor but in the very literal sense. Admitting didn't end up being enough. So I got a tech organizer, a product I long thought was over-kill but am now convinced entirely otherwise. Here's why.

Photo credit: Allie Holloway
Photo credit: Allie Holloway

It's not just for travel.

A tech organizer—any pouch or case that organizes all the accessories that come nicely wound up in your new smartphone or earbud box—is designed for travel. I am not traveling. I'm near my bed. So that's where I use this tech organizer, which is a cool collaboration between Incase and Bionic. It has two smaller zippered pouches, two large pockets, a stylus holder, three mesh slips, and five elastic loops. Here's a list of accessories it has neatly battened down: a spare Lightning cable, a USB wall adapter, a micro-USB cord for my headphones, a second micro-USB cord for emergencies, my electric toothbrush charger, a USB-C cable for my speaker, another charger whose purpose is a mystery, and a third micro-USB cord for really bad emergencies, I guess. Besides serving as a commentary on the role of rechargeable technology in my life, this is proof of how much the case holds. And there's lots of room for more.

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Photo credit: Allie Holloway
Photo credit: Allie Holloway

But it's for travel, too.

However, if I were to travel, the Incase x Bionic case would come with me. I'd stock it with some portable chargers, my AirPods case, the works. Because it's made with ripstop fabric, like gear used for sailing and camping and hiking, it won't disintegrate after a few trips through the TSA machines. And it'll definitely make my carry-on bag look 85 percent less like it contains a pile of black and white plastic entrails when you open it.

Photo credit: Allie Holloway
Photo credit: Allie Holloway

It's part of an ocean-friendly line of accessories.

Incase makes accessory bags and pouches for pretty much any type of gadget you could own, be it drone, camera, or iPhone. But let's circle back to that ripstop fabric for a moment. Bionic makes the yarn, and it makes it by recycling plastics from the ocean and turning it into the fabric. Incase says there are the equivalent of seven water bottles taken from the ocean in this particular accessory case. And should you like to buy more water bottles out of the ocean, this particular Incase x Bionic line extends to Macbook sleeves and a commuter backpack. Live with fewer entanglements.

Buy $49.95, incase.com


Photography and prop styling by Allie Holloway

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