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Accessory brand Hyper today is announcing a new tech backpack with built-in support for Apple's Find My tracking, helping users keep tabs on their possessions in case they are misplaced or stolen. Leveraging expertise gained with Hyper's acquisition by Targus last year, the HyperPack Pro is a feature-rich backpack with a number of organizational features designed to appeal to creative professionals and others who find themselves regularly on the go with their devices.

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Hyper was kind enough to send me an early production sample of the HyperPack Pro a few days ahead of the launch, so I've had a bit of time to test out its extensive set of features that goes well beyond the Find My integration. Rather simply taking an existing Targus backpack and adding a Find My module to it, Hyper sought to design a backpack from scratch that will appeal to Apple users with functionality, protection, and design.

The HyperPack Pro features three main compartments: a laptop compartment that fits up to a 16-inch notebook, a catch-all compartment for other items, and a tech organization compartment with lots of small pockets for keeping your chargers, accessories, and other items organized and easily accessible. Additional compartments include a cloth-lined sunglasses pocket and an easy-access front pocket on the exterior face of the backpack, a hidden lumber pocket that rests against your body to provide extra security for valuable items like passports and wallets, an expandable water bottle pocket on one side, and a unique MagSafe Charger-compatible pocket on the other side.

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With all of its various compartments and pockets, the HyperPack Pro is designed not only for organization and protection but also to support charging your devices while on the go. Hyper has designed a number of passthroughs and routing loops into the backpack, making it easy to run cable from a battery pack stored in one compartment to your computer, phone, iPad, or other devices stored separately in other compartments.

The side MagSafe pocket includes a mesh interior divider to securely position Apple's MagSafe Charger and a passthrough to let you route the charger's cable to the interior of the backpack where it can be hooked up to a power bank. Once that's set up, you can simply slide your iPhone into the zippered pocket, where it will latch onto the MagSafe Charger and let you top off your device wherever you are. The easily accessible side location of the pocket makes me a little nervous about the potential for theft, but if you're vigilant about maintaining awareness and control of your belongings, it's a convenient charging solution.

Moving on to the Find My functionality, the HyperPack Pro is one of only a few third-party accessories so far to support integration with Apple's item-tracking system. An IPX4 water-resistant module nestled on the top of the backpack provides the Find My functionality, with the prominent location providing optimum placement to allow you to hear the 90db alert beeps it can make if you've misplaced your pack and want to ping it from the Find My app on your Apple device.

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As with AirTags and other Find My-enabled products, the HyperPack Pro can alert you via the Find My app if it's been misplaced, forgotten, or stolen and goes out of range, and the Find My network will allow you to track its location. Similar to AirTags, the Find My module in the HyperPack Pro runs on a replaceable CR2032 battery that Hyper says should last about eight months.

Setup of the Find My tracking is simple, requiring a few button presses on the module to get it into pairing mode and then handling everything else via Apple's Find My app. On the Items tab, you can select the option to add a new item, and it will enter a discovery mode where it will find the backpack and pair with it, automatically recognizing it as a backpack. The setup process will suggest a name for it like "Eric's Backpack" and suggest a backpack emoji as the icon to be displayed for it in the Find My app, but both the name and emoji can be customized. At that point, the Find My module in the HyperPack Pro will be linked to your Apple ID and show up in the Find My app alongside other items like AirTags as well as your Apple devices.

The question that immediately leapt to my mind when I learned about the HyperPack Pro was why I would want to use this solution rather than just tossing an AirTag into a backpack I already own. The latter is certainly a viable solution (and a cheaper one), but if you're in the market for a new tech backpack, the HyperPack Pro offers a solid set of features even beyond the Find My functionality. And on the security front, a thief might be less likely to recognize the Find My module in the backpack as a tracker, compared to an AirTag that is immediately recognizable once spotted and can be easily removed and discarded. With Hyper's Find My module built right into the bag, a decent amount of effort is required to remove it or its battery.

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The HyperPack Pro is made of 1260D Cordura, so it should stand up to daily wear and tear quite well. Hyper offers a lifetime warranty on the bag itself and a two-year warranty on the Find My module. The laptop pocket is lined with faux fur to cushion your computer and keep it scratch-free, while the pocket is also suspended to help protect against impacts and jostles.

With padded shoulder straps and sternum straps to distribute weight across your chest, the HyperPack Pro offers a comfortable fit even with a good amount of gear in it, and the padded shoulder straps and back panel promote airflow to help keep you cooler. There's also a luggage passthrough on the back panel so you can slide the pack over the handle of a carry-on to pull it along with your luggage or help keep your belongings together while waiting in an airport or elsewhere.

In addition to the Find My support and hidden lumbar pocket in the back panel, the HyperPack Pro includes a few other security-focused features such as an interior RFID-blocking pocket to prevent thieves from skimming your credit cards or other RFID-enabled documents like passports. The laptop compartment also includes interlocking zippers, allowing you to thread one of the zipper pulls through the other one to slow down thieves who might try to unzip the pocket to access your belongings.

hyperpack-pro-rfid.jpg

As it does for many of its products, Hyper is launching the HyperPack Pro via a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Despite the sometimes uncertain nature of crowdfunding, Hyper has a long history of fulfilling its campaigns and the product is essentially ready to go. Hyper says the first bags are scheduled to begin shipping from the factory next month with delivery to the first backers coming in February.

Crowdfunding via Indiegogo also provides an easy way for Hyper to reward early backers with steeply discounted pricing. While the the HyperPack Pro will eventually sell for $200, a very limited Super Early Bird Special tier in the Indiegogo campaign is available for $100.

Increasing quantities are available at other tiers with smaller discounts, priced at $120, $140, or $150 depending on how quickly you get your pledge in. Several 2-pack and 3-pack bundles are also available via the campaign, although they don't offer any additional discounts over the single-bag pricing at the various tiers.

At the moment, Hyper is only shipping the HyperPack Pro to the continental United States, but is aiming to add international shipping as soon as possible.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Indiegogo. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

Article Link: Hyper Debuts HyperPack Pro Tech Backpack With Find My Integration
 
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PhoenixDown

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I would like to see more photos of the tech organization pocket.

Overall it looks like a great backpack, well designed and with features I wish my Tumi came with (1L water bottle holder, tech compartment). This will certainly be top of the list next time I am in the market for a new one.
 

miguel cortez

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Wouldn't a regular AirTag be more flexible and economical? Unless this is a better bag besides the Find My integration.
Which is exactly what they noted in the post...

"The question that immediately leapt to my mind when I learned about the HyperPack Pro was why I would want to use this solution rather than just tossing an AirTag into a backpack I already own. The latter is certainly a viable solution (and a cheaper one), but if you're in the market for a new tech backpack, the HyperPack Pro offers a solid set of features even beyond the Find My functionality."
 

jimbobb24

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I thought we had established, to protect the rare event of stalking, the find my couldn't be used for the common event of stolen stuff. It can be disabled by the thief and announces itself to the thief.
 

PhoenixDown

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I thought we had established, to protect the rare event of stalking, the find my couldn't be used for the common event of stolen stuff. It can be disabled by the thief and announces itself to the thief.

My experience is that it takes some time before it triggers. I don't think anyone has gotten an alert on the hour long bus ride I take to/from work.
 

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I would like to see more photos of the tech organization pocket.

Overall it looks like a great backpack, well designed and with features I wish my Tumi came with (1L water bottle holder, tech compartment). This will certainly be top of the list next time I am in the market for a new one.

So there's the zippered RFID-blocking pocket up top, then the orange-trimmed pockets, then another row of smaller pockets including a couple of small ones for pens or similar. Down at the bottom is a zippered mesh pocket that Hyper suggests is a good spot for a power bank if you want to run cables throughout the rest of the pack.

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macduke

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I don't trust Hyper. I've had their products fail (spectacularly, like corrupting SD cards and losing data when testing) and there were recent stories about their chargers catching fire. I have no idea why MacRumors keeps promoting their products aside from money money money. You'd think they'd care more about their readers.

I doubt this backpack will hold up well because of all their QA issues.

If you want to integrate Find My with your backpack, just take the backpack you already own and stick an AirTag in it for $25-30, depending on sales or if you bought a multipack.
 

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Which is exactly what they noted in the post...

"The question that immediately leapt to my mind when I learned about the HyperPack Pro was why I would want to use this solution rather than just tossing an AirTag into a backpack I already own. The latter is certainly a viable solution (and a cheaper one), but if you're in the market for a new tech backpack, the HyperPack Pro offers a solid set of features even beyond the Find My functionality."
Except I don't think it's a better bag than others. There are better/equal bags + the AirTag price that still total cheaper than this one.
 

jaytv111

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I thought we had established, to protect the rare event of stalking, the find my couldn't be used for the common event of stolen stuff. It can be disabled by the thief and announces itself to the thief.
We did establish, stolen items are harder to track and it's not ideal. But no tracker is foolproof, a thief can always rummage through a bag and throw anything out that looks like a tracker, or put it into a faraday cage and block all radio transmission from the bag. The Airtag and Find My devices do announce themselves but for iPhone users, which is a disadvantage, but good thieves would know what to do to prevent tracking. They know for instance how to deal with stolen iPhones which do have tracking and when put into lost mode they can't turn the tracking off.
 

nutmac

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I don't trust Hyper. I've had their products fail (spectacularly, like corrupting SD cards and losing data when testing) and there were recent stories about their chargers catching fire. I have no idea why MacRumors keeps promoting their products aside from money money money. You'd think they'd care more about their readers.
Yeah, I am not touching Hyper with a 10-ft pole. I suppose the minuscule finder dongle is unlikely to ignite, but I am not taking any chances.

MacRumors should be ASHAMED of themselves for keep promoting this shady vendor.
 

macfanjoe

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For younger kids without iPhones, are we concerned the thing will start to go off/announce itself randomly in a classroom? I.E. it thinks it is lost or it is "stalking" the teacher who does have an iPhone?
 

McWetty

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For $150, I’ll get a Peak Design pack (on sale, of course) and add an AirTag. Lifetime warranty, built like a brick sh*tter, and great usability.
 
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We did establish, stolen items are harder to track and it's not ideal. But no tracker is foolproof, a thief can always rummage through a bag and throw anything out that looks like a tracker, or put it into a faraday cage and block all radio transmission from the bag. The Airtag and Find My devices do announce themselves but for iPhone users, which is a disadvantage, but good thieves would know what to do to prevent tracking. They know for instance how to deal with stolen iPhones which do have tracking and when put into lost mode they can't turn the tracking off.
It's similar to people breaking in, a deadbolt and locking handle only cause delay if they really want to get inside.
 

Shustr

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Except I don't think it's a better bag than others. There are better/equal bags + the AirTag price that still total cheaper than this one.
antiprotest can you please post a few examples of backpacks with similar design/features (I don't care about FindMy) that better/equal bags? This is an important question for me. Because I really like the design layout of this backpack. It reminds me of my very favorite Booq Boa which, alas, has long been out of production. And since then I have found it difficult to find a replacement. This is the first backpack I see with same +- layout. But if you say there are many of them I would buy it so I don't have to wait for the Hyper.
 
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Shustr

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So there's the zippered RFID-blocking pocket up top, then the orange-trimmed pockets, then another row of smaller pockets including a couple of small ones for pens or similar. Down at the bottom is a zippered mesh pocket that Hyper suggests is a good spot for a power bank if you want to run cables throughout the rest of the pack.

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Can you please post more photos of other sections? And what do you think of the overall quality of the backpack? Zippers? The fabric?
 

KaliYoni

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I would buy it so I don't have to wait for the Hyper.

I'm a bag addict, so here are some ideas based on experiences...

  • Built-to-last forever + generous warranty: Red Oxx
  • Anti-theft features: Pacsafe
  • Form over function: Côte & Ciel (trivia: founders designed the iPod sock and made some Apple Store exclusive MacBook backpacks in the past)
  • Organization + generous warranty: Timbuk2 (plus they offer a cool customization program for several bags)
  • Outdoors-centered design + reliability + lifetime warranty: Deuter
  • Organization + innovative features: Mystery Ranch
 
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I don't trust Hyper. I've had their products fail (spectacularly, like corrupting SD cards and losing data when testing) and there were recent stories about their chargers catching fire. I have no idea why MacRumors keeps promoting their products aside from money money money. You'd think they'd care more about their readers.

I doubt this backpack will hold up well because of all their QA issues.

If you want to integrate Find My with your backpack, just take the backpack you already own and stick an AirTag in it for $25-30, depending on sales or if you bought a multipack.
I think it's their battery that caught fire, not their chargers?
 

Shustr

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I'm a bag addict, so here are some ideas based on experiences...

  • Built-to-last forever + generous warranty: Red Oxx
  • Anti-theft features: Pacsafe
  • Form over function: Côte & Ciel (triva: founders designed the iPod sock and made some Apple Store exclusive MacBook backpacks in the past)
  • Organization + generous warranty: Timbuk2 (plus they offer a cool customization program for several bags)
  • Outdoors-centered design + reliability + lifetime warranty: Deuter
  • Organization + innovative features: Mystery Ranch
Thanks for the suggestions! I've checked everything and unfortunately haven't found any backpacks close to what I'm looking for. Here's my Boa Shift for your understanding https://www.booqbags.com/products/boa-shift-15-inch-laptop-backpack It's FANTASTIC. Unfortunately booq closed a long time ago and I haven't found anything like it since. This Hyper is very similar in layout.

Red Oxx - I wouldn't say I like the way it looks at all.
Pacsafe - is the closest, but also not a complete match. The closest models have only two compartments, not three. It is important to me that there was a separate compartment for a laptop on the back, a separate for general and a separate for small things/tech.
Timbuk2 - very good quality but VERY poor in terms of internal organization. Very few pockets, compartments, etc inside. They are all empty inside. I have looked at every model in the Timbuk2 shop in my city. It's too bad they don't think about the organization inside.
Deuter - it's some kind of hiking backpack. ot what I am looking for :)
Mystery Ranch - military or hiking. not what I am looking for :)

Thanks anyway! The search continues, so far I've left the early bird on the Hyper.
 

KaliYoni

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The search continue

I don't own anything made by Tom Bihn (have come close to buying a few times though), but I think its design philosophy and wide range of accessories might be to your liking. Good luck with your search!
 
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Shustr

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I don't own anything made by Tom Bihn (have come close to buying a few times though), but I think its design philosophy and wide range of accessories might be to your liking. Good luck with your search!
Thank you! Will check!
 

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Accessory brand Hyper today is announcing a new tech backpack with built-in support for Apple's Find My tracking, helping users keep tabs on their possessions in case they are misplaced or stolen. Leveraging expertise gained with Hyper's acquisition by Targus last year, the HyperPack Pro is a feature-rich backpack with a number of organizational features designed to appeal to creative professionals and others who find themselves regularly on the go with their devices.

hyperpack-pro-feature.jpg

Hyper was kind enough to send me an early production sample of the HyperPack Pro a few days ahead of the launch, so I've had a bit of time to test out its extensive set of features that goes well beyond the Find My integration. Rather simply taking an existing Targus backpack and adding a Find My module to it, Hyper sought to design a backpack from scratch that will appeal to Apple users with functionality, protection, and design.

The HyperPack Pro features three main compartments: a laptop compartment that fits up to a 16-inch notebook, a catch-all compartment for other items, and a tech organization compartment with lots of small pockets for keeping your chargers, accessories, and other items organized and easily accessible. Additional compartments include a cloth-lined sunglasses pocket and an easy-access front pocket on the exterior face of the backpack, a hidden lumber pocket that rests against your body to provide extra security for valuable items like passports and wallets, an expandable water bottle pocket on one side, and a unique MagSafe Charger-compatible pocket on the other side.



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With all of its various compartments and pockets, the HyperPack Pro is designed not only for organization and protection but also to support charging your devices while on the go. Hyper has designed a number of passthroughs and routing loops into the backpack, making it easy to run cable from a battery pack stored in one compartment to your computer, phone, iPad, or other devices stored separately in other compartments.

The side MagSafe pocket includes a mesh interior divider to securely position Apple's MagSafe Charger and a passthrough to let you route the charger's cable to the interior of the backpack where it can be hooked up to a power bank. Once that's set up, you can simply slide your iPhone into the zippered pocket, where it will latch onto the MagSafe Charger and let you top off your device wherever you are. The easily accessible side location of the pocket makes me a little nervous about the potential for theft, but if you're vigilant about maintaining awareness and control of your belongings, it's a convenient charging solution.

Moving on to the Find My functionality, the HyperPack Pro is one of only a few third-party accessories so far to support integration with Apple's item-tracking system. An IPX4 water-resistant module nestled on the top of the backpack provides the Find My functionality, with the prominent location providing optimum placement to allow you to hear the 90db alert beeps it can make if you've misplaced your pack and want to ping it from the Find My app on your Apple device.

hyperpack-pro-find-my.jpg

As with AirTags and other Find My-enabled products, the HyperPack Pro can alert you via the Find My app if it's been misplaced, forgotten, or stolen and goes out of range, and the Find My network will allow you to track its location. Similar to AirTags, the Find My module in the HyperPack Pro runs on a replaceable CR2032 battery that Hyper says should last about eight months.

Setup of the Find My tracking is simple, requiring a few button presses on the module to get it into pairing mode and then handling everything else via Apple's Find My app. On the Items tab, you can select the option to add a new item, and it will enter a discovery mode where it will find the backpack and pair with it, automatically recognizing it as a backpack. The setup process will suggest a name for it like "Eric's Backpack" and suggest a backpack emoji as the icon to be displayed for it in the Find My app, but both the name and emoji can be customized. At that point, the Find My module in the HyperPack Pro will be linked to your Apple ID and show up in the Find My app alongside other items like AirTags as well as your Apple devices.

The question that immediately leapt to my mind when I learned about the HyperPack Pro was why I would want to use this solution rather than just tossing an AirTag into a backpack I already own. The latter is certainly a viable solution (and a cheaper one), but if you're in the market for a new tech backpack, the HyperPack Pro offers a solid set of features even beyond the Find My functionality. And on the security front, a thief might be less likely to recognize the Find My module in the backpack as a tracker, compared to an AirTag that is immediately recognizable once spotted and can be easily removed and discarded. With Hyper's Find My module built right into the bag, a decent amount of effort is required to remove it or its battery.

hyperpack-pro-laptop.jpg

The HyperPack Pro is made of 1260D Cordura, so it should stand up to daily wear and tear quite well. Hyper offers a lifetime warranty on the bag itself and a two-year warranty on the Find My module. The laptop pocket is lined with faux fur to cushion your computer and keep it scratch-free, while the pocket is also suspended to help protect against impacts and jostles.

With padded shoulder straps and sternum straps to distribute weight across your chest, the HyperPack Pro offers a comfortable fit even with a good amount of gear in it, and the padded shoulder straps and back panel promote airflow to help keep you cooler. There's also a luggage passthrough on the back panel so you can slide the pack over the handle of a carry-on to pull it along with your luggage or help keep your belongings together while waiting in an airport or elsewhere.

In addition to the Find My support and hidden lumbar pocket in the back panel, the HyperPack Pro includes a few other security-focused features such as an interior RFID-blocking pocket to prevent thieves from skimming your credit cards or other RFID-enabled documents like passports. The laptop compartment also includes interlocking zippers, allowing you to thread one of the zipper pulls through the other one to slow down thieves who might try to unzip the pocket to access your belongings.

hyperpack-pro-rfid.jpg

As it does for many of its products, Hyper is launching the HyperPack Pro via a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Despite the sometimes uncertain nature of crowdfunding, Hyper has a long history of fulfilling its campaigns and the product is essentially ready to go. Hyper says the first bags are scheduled to begin shipping from the factory next month with delivery to the first backers coming in February.

Crowdfunding via Indiegogo also provides an easy way for Hyper to reward early backers with steeply discounted pricing. While the the HyperPack Pro will eventually sell for $200, a very limited Super Early Bird Special tier in the Indiegogo campaign is available for $100.

Increasing quantities are available at other tiers with smaller discounts, priced at $120, $140, or $150 depending on how quickly you get your pledge in. Several 2-pack and 3-pack bundles are also available via the campaign, although they don't offer any additional discounts over the single-bag pricing at the various tiers.

At the moment, Hyper is only shipping the HyperPack Pro to the continental United States, but is aiming to add international shipping as soon as possible.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Indiegogo. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

Article Link: Hyper Debuts HyperPack Pro Tech Backpack With Find My Integration
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