While searching the web, I cam across a blog that caught my attention. It was about a new product being released called a Trek Support backpack. This backpack has the ability to charge up your portable electric devices.
Quirky, which is community-driven, is a popular website for products you might otherwise never hear about. Ideas for products can be submitted by anyone with an idea. After submission the design team at Quirky works on the idea until "[Quirky] sell the product worldwide, and then we share the revenue with the inventor and all influencers." This new Trek Support backpack is the latest in new products created by the people at Quirky.
I found out about this product on "The Adventure Blog," which contains, "news, commentary, and insight on adventures, and adventurers, from around the globe." Submitted by Adventure Junkie on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, the blog was broken up into two parts. The first dealt with informing the audience about this new product. The second went into the opinion of the Trek Support backpack held by the blogger.
When I first heard about the Trek Backpack, I thought it would be great for road trips because it would prevent the accumulation of power chords in the vehicle. However, other than providing pictures of the product "The Adventure Blog," does very little in explaining the device. The author wrote Trek Support was producing this product when actually it is Quirky and is called Trek Support. Also, the author mentions that it costs $130, though it's not actually on sale yet according to the official site. They need 1,200 people to sign on to this product before it will finally go into production.
The author, "Adventure Junkie," does not seem impressed with this product, though can see some benefits with owning it. "Adventure Junkie," notes the convenience of a charging device without the need for wires and chords. As I mentioned earlier I can see the same benefits. How many times have you experienced the hassle of untangling three different chords to charge a device? If you have a backpack that can be charged then you can simply charged your portable devices sans chords.
"The Adventure Blog's" largest issue seems to be line editing. Much of the writing seems to be simply written and posted without and real fact checking or any spelling or grammar checking. This trips up the reader because it makes them feel they are reading the post incorrectly when in actuality this is not the case. Even though blogging is intended to be a conversational, informal tone, more time should be devoted to fix these little annoying errors.
