00:00Another year, another tech travel bag.
00:07So this is actually my first video in 2026.
00:10It's good to be back.
00:10Took a couple weeks off.
00:11And before we get into the tech travel pack,
00:14this is the one that I'm bringing with me
00:15on my 12th trip to CES.
00:19Crazy how much time has passed.
00:20And if we look back at last year,
00:21I traveled over that like 100,000 kilometer mark,
00:24even though I only traveled for six months,
00:26we had a little one at the end of the year.
00:28So a big congrats to me.
00:29Congrats that I didn't sit on a plane
00:31as much as I did in 2024.
00:33The first thing that you'll need for any travel,
00:35obviously to go in your bag is your passport,
00:37which is something that I forgot.
00:38So I will either show B-roll of it,
00:40but do not forget that.
00:41Once you have that in place, let's get to the actual tech.
00:44So this one is super dope.
00:45I think a lot of you know, like I'm a huge Porsche fan.
00:47This is a Grams 28 collab.
00:49This is their Mars Rover 944 edition.
00:52So this is built in collab
00:53with a filmmaker photographer, Johnny Romes,
00:55around a 944 Porsche, which is super cool.
00:59Obviously being a Porsche owner myself
01:00and reviewing a lot of Grams 28 stuff,
01:02this was super obvious for me.
01:04So this is around their adventure pack,
01:06which I really liked.
01:07So this is made out of their water resistant
01:08and tear resistant X-pack material,
01:10which is way more durable than their leather,
01:12which they're known for.
01:13You can still see it has some of that detailing
01:15around the sides of it, which is nice.
01:17But if you want something really rugged,
01:19really meant for travel,
01:20this is the type of material that you want.
01:22So it has that longevity to get beat up
01:24because in reality, travel packs,
01:26they get smushed, they get put into airplanes,
01:28they get thrown around.
01:29You want something that can take the abuse
01:31that you actually use like day to day.
01:33So quickly going through the actual pack,
01:35it's got the main compartment up top,
01:37which you can store a lot of your goods,
01:38which we'll get to.
01:39That's where your main laptop goes.
01:40And what I really like,
01:41you can still access all of your gear
01:43by these two little zippers
01:44that you can actually flip down.
01:46So you can see it stores a lot of stuff
01:47like camera equipment.
01:48There's a lot of individual zippers to place things.
01:51And on the inside, you can see that material
01:53that they use X-Pack, which is really nice.
01:55And when you are traveling,
01:56it's always nice to have water bottles on hand.
01:58And since most packs actually don't have something
02:00as simple as a little button
02:02when your bottle is in place,
02:03and this happens a lot
02:04when your backpack goes upside down,
02:06your water bottle doesn't fall, which is great.
02:08It's got really comfy straps with a chest strap.
02:10And the back is nice and padded
02:12with of course that little luggage strap
02:13that you can kind of put onto your carry-on.
02:15So super, super slick bag.
02:17Love the colorway of this.
02:18Love the fact that it's the collab with Porsche.
02:20And this is also the first time
02:21they've come out with a clothing line.
02:23It's almost in that same X-Pack
02:24or really like tough canvas material.
02:26So super dope.
02:27I've worked with Grahams 28 for years.
02:29Might have to be one of my favorite collabs.
02:31Big Porsche fan, big tech travel fan.
02:34So of course, all links below.
02:37So that was the bag.
02:39My main laptop, this one needs no introduction.
02:42It's kind of been my powerhouse for the past year.
02:44So this is the M4 Max 14-inch MacBook Pro.
02:47I prefer the smaller size, especially for traveling.
02:50Like the 16 is nice to look at content,
02:52but in the end, 14 inches is the honest sweet spot
02:56for traveling over 100,000 kilometers,
02:59100,000 miles, whatever you do every single year.
03:01The fact that I do all my projects off of this,
03:04I will show you a little dirty tech secret
03:06of how dirty my desktop is, how dirty the computer is.
03:09It gets use, it works.
03:11You can see that love.
03:12I've got my Porsche poster here
03:13or the, I guess like desktop wallpaper.
03:15It is a beast.
03:16I am really excited for the new MacBooks
03:19coming like this year, technically 2026.
03:22I think we should be getting like OLED MacBook Pros,
03:25which I'm pumped about,
03:26but let me know what computer you use.
03:28So that is the main laptop of choice.
03:32Smartphones, typically I'm in like the Apple ecosystem.
03:34I usually have two, like my main iPhone
03:37and my Android device.
03:38So that is obviously iPhone 17 Pro Max.
03:42Once again, needs no introduction.
03:43A little bit of customization I like to do.
03:45I have this little dbrand skin just on the top shelf.
03:49Technically Apple calls this their Plateau
03:51because it is made out of aluminum.
03:53I do have some scratches around there.
03:55So that kind of covers it,
03:56plus gives it some customization.
03:58Obviously you can tell my favorite color is orange
04:00and my Android phone that I did bring with me to CES
04:04is the new Honor Magic 8 Pro.
04:07This has been out for a while,
04:08but globally it's just come out.
04:09I've actually done a comparison,
04:11did some pretty cool projects around that.
04:13So that is my Android phone.
04:14Typically I kind of switch between
04:16which one is coming out slash the new ones.
04:18I recently used the new Samsung Tri-Fold,
04:21which I was super pumped about.
04:23I'm interested to see what Apple has to come out
04:25with their folding phone.
04:27I've seen some patents, some leaks, some rumors.
04:29So we will have to see what interesting phones
04:32are coming out this year.
04:33Let me know which one you guys are most pumped about.
04:36Funnily enough, speaking about tech and travel,
04:38the folding phone looks almost like a passport size
04:40instead of like the traditional aspect ratio
04:42that we've seen from most folding phones.
04:45More like the OG Pixel Fold.
04:47But speaking of like actual travel hacks,
04:50some apps that I'll quickly share
04:51that I really think are useful.
04:52So if you do travel a lot,
04:53just make sure you stay within the same provider.
04:56You can get status.
04:57I'm sadly stuck with Air Canada.
04:59You can see for last year,
05:01I cleared 100,000 miles, 125,000 miles,
05:04spent $33,000 on flights.
05:06And that is only on six months of travel.
05:08And if you actually want to track your flights,
05:11this app called Flighty, super, super useful.
05:14I just used the free version.
05:16You can see in 2025, the kilometers or miles traveled.
05:19You can see the world map of where all your flights went.
05:21And diabolically enough, I missed 24 hours.
05:25So one full day, four delays.
05:28Air Canada, my bane of existence,
05:30like 65% of my flights were delayed.
05:32Air Canada was sitting at 70%.
05:3623 out of 33 flights delayed.
05:39Like that is wild.
05:40So we're hoping for a better year this year.
05:43Air Canada, sponsor me.
05:45I'll say good things about you, I swear.
05:47So to cameras, since I'm in the content space,
05:51I'm gonna give you two recommendations,
05:53two different price points, kind of how I would use each.
05:55If you are not a creator,
05:57if you're just someone that likes to take photos,
05:59maybe for like the gram,
06:00maybe if you're Instagram husband of the year,
06:03whatever you wanna do, just take some nice photos,
06:05get something smaller.
06:06This one is the A7CR, obviously from Sony,
06:09and I've got a 40 mil prime on it.
06:11It's nice and small that it isn't like heavy, bulky.
06:14It fits into almost like your pocket, a small little bag.
06:17So that's great for travel.
06:18If you do need something a bit more like work horsey,
06:21creating content like I do for a living.
06:23So this is the Sony A7R5.
06:26I really like it because it's a bit of a hybrid,
06:28shoots both stills as well as all the video that I do,
06:30records an S-Log3,
06:32almost similar to the two Sony A7S3s that we're shooting on.
06:35Plus it's got that 35 mil crop.
06:38So you get even more focal range
06:39and the lens that I really love,
06:41like I've tested them all, all of them.
06:43This is the one that I come back to every single time,
06:4524 to 105.
06:46It's got OSS.
06:48I know that it's only an F4,
06:49but I have used this time and time again.
06:52I come back to it every single year
06:53as like my one lens that does it all.
06:56I love this thing.
06:56It shoots like 95% of the content
06:59that you guys kind of watch on this channel
07:01when I am traveling.
07:02So the next new travel tech
07:03that I've just upgraded this year
07:05is around like charging.
07:06Obviously I carry around a lot of devices,
07:08but this cool new power bank, both from Anker,
07:11technically they're very similar.
07:12They just have different sizes.
07:14So 20,000 milliamps as well as a 26,000.
07:17And there's also this fast charging base.
07:20So right before the video,
07:21I just started charging this.
07:22It's ready at a hundred percent.
07:24If I just clip this guy on,
07:25you can see right there how fast it's charging.
07:28Obviously that is in real time.
07:30So super, super quick.
07:31You can see there,
07:31it's 150 Watts of total output
07:34and really meant for what devices
07:35you need to kind of charge
07:37and how much juice you actually need.
07:39So honestly,
07:40just for the 20,000 one,
07:41you can charge your laptop,
07:43your smartphone,
07:44one of your cameras,
07:45your headphones,
07:45whatever you happen to have.
07:47You can see there the ports.
07:48You've got two USB-C ports and one USB-A.
07:50Obviously the main benefit of this,
07:52it has enough power.
07:53So 140 Watts max,
07:54a fast charging to power,
07:56say like one of your devices,
07:58usually like a MacBook Pro
07:59that draws a lot of juice.
08:01You can use this fully
08:03and you can see it doesn't even say
08:05that it's like a low power outage.
08:06Like say if you have like a smaller like brick,
08:09it says charging at a slower speed.
08:11So it thinks it's charging
08:12from the actual power adapter,
08:14which is cool.
08:15And then you can use your other port
08:16to say charge your phone,
08:18whatever device you have,
08:19you can create like a mobile workstation
08:21and never have to worry about juicing up
08:23or running out of it.
08:24And what's really great is say like at your hotel,
08:27when you want at night,
08:28whenever you want,
08:28you just plop one of these on,
08:30it charges so fast.
08:31Like I said,
08:32we just started this
08:33at the beginning of the video
08:34and it's ready up to 32%,
08:36which is great.
08:37It's small enough to carry around.
08:38And what I really like
08:39what they did with this base,
08:41it also has output ports on the base.
08:43So if you want to still charge multiple devices,
08:46plus have the actual brick charging
08:48while you juice out.
08:49And as a reference,
08:50I actually just had a phone
08:51that was completely dead,
08:53just juicing up.
08:53So while I talk about this,
08:55this will be plugged in
08:55just to kind of see how fast this charges.
08:58But as a reference point,
08:59you can charge up to say 300 watts total,
09:02say with a larger one,
09:03you can power two MacBook Pros at the same time.
09:06If you wanted,
09:07you could charge your iPhone 17 Pro Max
09:08from zero to like 50%
09:10in around like 27 minutes-ish.
09:12Do a little check here
09:13so the phone is on.
09:14So rapidly charging,
09:15literally in a couple minutes,
09:16we're at 12%.
09:18And you can actually see here,
09:19the device is smart enough
09:20to know which device it's charging.
09:22So right there,
09:2360 watts like max output
09:25for charging for a phone.
09:26You kind of get the idea.
09:28They charge really quick
09:29and compared to like
09:30a traditional charging brick,
09:31they usually have those
09:32like four little indicator lights.
09:33This one will give you
09:34an exact percentage
09:35of how much juice you have.
09:37If there was one piece
09:38that I could upgrade to this year,
09:40definitely charging
09:41just makes my life way easier.
09:42Remember, all links down below.
09:44So next for audio,
09:45so three different things,
09:47two, four cameras.
09:48So one,
09:49if you need a little shotgun mic,
09:51this one is great.
09:51It's one from Sony.
09:53I really like it
09:54because it has like bi-directional.
09:55So say you're vlogging,
09:56you get both sound
09:57from the front and the back.
09:59New little upgrade this year,
10:00the DJI Mic 3s.
10:02They're just a lot smaller.
10:03It'll actually be the first time
10:04that I use them at CES.
10:06So dope,
10:06I can just clip them on.
10:07Pretty much all the show coverage
10:08will be done
10:09with these small and compact.
10:11And for actual travel,
10:13so hot take on this.
10:14AirPod Maxes,
10:15not the best sound quality,
10:17not the best noise canceling,
10:18but by far the best cushion
10:21or the best comfort.
10:23And when you want to sleep
10:25when you're traveling
10:26for seven to eight hours
10:27and having a newborn,
10:28I actually wear these to sleep.
10:30So I don't wake up
10:31in the middle of the night.
10:32Sometimes these have to be the comfiest.
10:34So these are made out of memory foam.
10:36You can actually see
10:37they're pretty scummy,
10:38pretty dirty
10:38from how much I've used them.
10:40I can throw these into the wash
10:41because they're just removable.
10:42They're magnetic.
10:43You can easily clean them.
10:44And if they're too far gone,
10:46you can always buy new ones,
10:47which I can't say the same
10:48for ones from like Sony, Bose,
10:51other ones.
10:52In honesty, for me,
10:53comfort is the biggest thing.
10:55So like I said,
10:56not the best sound quality,
10:57but these just feel so easy,
10:59so comfy on the ears
11:00that you never get any ear fatigue.
11:02And for me,
11:03that's the biggest thing
11:04when traveling.
11:05Last piece of,
11:06I guess, like fun tech on here.
11:08I always try to test out new things.
11:10So instead of having like a wearable,
11:11I'm not wearing
11:12like a smartwatch or anything.
11:13These are the Oakley Vanguard Metacolab.
11:16So when I travel,
11:18I work out
11:18and obviously I can use these
11:20to record video.
11:22So if you actually look right here,
11:23there's a small little video camera.
11:24So when I press,
11:26taking a couple of photos now,
11:27and when I long press this,
11:29you can see that
11:29the actual recording is going on
11:31just to let someone know
11:32you're not being like a creep
11:33recording them without them knowing,
11:35but you can take hands-free footage.
11:37You can now just work out
11:38without say like a phone.
11:39If you want to capture something,
11:41I think these are really cool.
11:42And there's like a practical use
11:43of having them as actual sunglasses.
11:46Last but not least,
11:47a couple accessories.
11:48We'll fire through these quickly.
11:49Just a Lexar SSD,
11:51four terabytes for all the footage,
11:52whether it's from my Oakleys
11:54to the footage that I record on the cameras.
11:56Just must have a little light
11:57since I am at CES.
11:59Super useful for when you are recording
12:01in darker conditions,
12:02trade shows,
12:03and a little mouse.
12:04A lot of editing going on.
12:05This is the MX Anywhere 3 mouse.
12:08Just great to have in your hotel room.
12:10Once again, small, compact,
12:11each great for traveling.
12:13Literally, as I brought this up,
12:15my little shaver turned on.
12:16I do carry around my toiletry bag with me
12:20in my little carry-on
12:21just because you never know
12:23if your luggage goes missing.
12:24So I just picked this one up.
12:25This one, you can see it's from Prada.
12:28A little bit bougie.
12:28So it has my,
12:30oh, hot take again.
12:32My water pick was like my big upgrade
12:35for last year.
12:36Like I use this thing
12:36like more than like a toothbrush,
12:38I would say.
12:39It cleanses your teeth like no other.
12:41That is cool.
12:42Little Philip shaver deodorant.
12:44And inside, I have my AirTag
12:46in case anything goes missing.
12:47And then on the other side,
12:49people always ask fragrance
12:50in a little travel size form.
12:53This one's from Tom Ford.
12:54And everyone asks,
12:55if you didn't know,
12:56this is the gel that I use.
12:58$10 off Amazon.
12:59It's American Crew.
13:01Styles my hair.
13:02All of this is in
13:04my tech travel bag for 2026.
13:07Hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
13:08I'm sure I'll hit another year
13:10of 100,000 plus miles.
13:12Maybe it won't travel as much
13:13as I did like in 2024,
13:14which was like 200,000 miles
13:16because of my little one.
13:17I love to spend time
13:18with her at home.
13:19But if you have any recommendations
13:21or upgrades for what I need
13:22for this year,
13:23let me know.
13:24Hope you found it useful.
13:25Get some ideas.
13:26And to all the new tech
13:28coming out in 2026.
13:30Peace.
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