What Do You Think You’d Find In Steve Wozniak’s Backpack?

steve woz back pack What Do You Think You’d Find In Steve Wozniak’s Backpack?
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You could be mistaken for thinking that with all the advancements in modern technology and the super-slim and lightweight gadgets that are on the market, the travel backpack of a gadget-geek wouldn’t weigh a whopping 50 pounds!!

Well according to a report from Gizmodo, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak just can’t seem to cut it down and always travels everywhere with a 50 pound backpack that contains all sorts of weird and wonderful devices!

Apparently Wozniak takes his hefty backpack with him everywhere he goes and believes that its staggering weight has made his height shrink over the years. He also said that it stops him from walking very fast and often takes the TSA forever to unpack and search through! Yeah, I can imagine that isn’t much fun!

This picture shows the entire contents of Wozniak’s magic bag that accompanies him everywhere and they include: a Bluetooth mouse, binoculars, projector connectors, multiple Gameboy Lights, Gameboy link cables, numerous AC adapters, Prism glasses for bedtime movie watching, sunglasses, earplugs, laser pointers, a whole host of stationary and much much more…

Wozniak said:

You might think this is abnormal for me but, to the contrary, it’s customary.

Every extension cord and USB adapter and USB cable shown here I carry all the time in my backpack with a few exceptions:

one Belkin AC tripler with dual USB I carry in my suitcase

one dual USB adapter is from Janet’s travel stuff

Canon battery charger is carried in the camera bag

firewire HD I carry in my suitcase

Verizon 3G mifi adapter (standard micro USB screws up this mifi, have to use their awkward connecter)

Almost every USB cable is retractable.

Every device shown, I carry in my pockets or in my backpack all the time except:

2 iPhones, an iPod nano and an iPad belonging to Janet.

Some people ask how heavy my backpack is. There are a lot more things in my backpack including

the AirPort Express and MacBook Pro 85W magsafe adapter, which are out of sight in this photo,

bluetooth mouse,

binoculars,

projector connectors,

multiple Gameboy Lights (a Gameboy sold in Japan but never in the U.S.),

Gameboy link cables,

plenty of foreign AC adapters,

prism glasses for watching movies in bed,

sunglasses,

earplugs for concerts,

Ultimate Ears UE18 earplugs for flights,

Gameboy link cable,

tons of pencils for pencil games on flights,

tons of pens,

tons of sharpies,

tons of paint pens (signing),

red-blue-purple-yellow-green laser pointers,

credit cards,

hotel cards,

airline cards,

hard rock card,

medical cards,

small accessories like olloclip iPhone lens adapter,

Square,

flash keys,

flash media adapters,

cigarette lighter dual USB adapter,

audio doubler cable,

iPad USB/SD Card adapters,

toiletries for hotels,

batteries of many types (AA, AAA, CR2, CR128, odder types for things like my bag beeper for locating my suitcase)

eyedrops,

$2 bill pads,

pencil puzzles,

itineraries for upcoming travel…

I usually say that my backpack weighs 50 pounds. I’m not sure but I have to carry it every step through airports. I’m sure that I’m shorter now than before and I don’t walk as fast. Everything has its place in my backpack.

Sometimes TSA takes a long time unpacking it. A couple of times they asked me to take out everything electronic and I asked for seven bins, all of which I filled (only 2 half-size), plus my MacBook Pro, plus the bag. All of that through the X-ray machine. Then repack it.

You would be forgiven for wondering if he needs quite so much stuff for every trip he takes, however he claims that nothing in his backpack ever goes unused, although the Bluetooth mouse might be close!