two days packed with all-star

Is a question I never thought I’d find myself Hermes card case bagturning over in my head, but here we are. It’s Monday morning and that’s what’s on my mind. The En Noir Snakeskin Travel Bag owes a ch is saying a lot for a Monday morning coming off of little to no sleep. And while we'd have been slightly grumpy working through the weekend in nearly any other scenario, we just spent three days with 10,000 or so friends, colleagues and tech superstars, so we can't really complain too much. It's tough to pick a favorite

moment from the inaugural Engadget Expand New York. Maybe it was watching LeVar Burton engage in a discussion with Timothy Jordan from the Google Glass team. It may well have been seeing Reggie Watts talk wearables with Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky or Hermes evelynewitnessing Spike Lee get scanned with 3D Systems' new Sense handheld., Katie finally shed her Joey Potter vibe (or at least got as close as she'll probably ever come) with some sexy ringlet curls. Teaming the extra oomph with a daub more eye makeup than she normally likes to wear, Katie looked relaxed, glam and ready to party. Granted, we've only done this twice, but we think we can safely say that something magical happens when you put a lot of smart, creative types in a room for a couple of days. Between the giant robotic leg, Raspberry Pi

competition, 3D printers, Occulus Rifts and two days packed with all-star panels, it was heck of a weekend. We realize not everyone could join us, of course, so hopefully this latest debt of design gratitude to any number of popular women’s bags; there are details here from the Celine Luggage Tote, the 3.1 Phillip Lim Pashli and Celine’s new Knot Tote, but I’m not sure they add up to much o -out heritage styling, and this bag represents neither of those options. Most problematic is the top flap, which feels like a very women’s-Hermes faux crocodilebag detail in this context. It’s also not properly scaled for the handles it partially covers, which makes it feel tacked on. If the flap was removed, this bag would likely fare far better. Celine already fig