Hasta La Ideas

One of the most useful items I’ve carried on backpacking trips, whether urban or outdoors, is a bungie cord. You can use it to tie luggage down in teeth-rattling transport, hang dry sink-washed laundry, and quickly secure a day pack to a cafe chair to stymie the urban snatch-and-dash.

The latest Quirky project to catch our eye is similar: Bandits are a bungie cord with a polypropylene hook attached. We found it interesting because it’s not so much an innovation of design—bungie cords with hooks have been around forever—but more an innovation of scale and bundling.

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