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If you travel with technology, you need a bag that can take a beating. You don't want your iPad to get busted in crowded gym locker or on an airline's crammed overhead bin. Is Pelican ProGear's resilient new Urban Elite Tablet Backpack tough enough? A backpack with a built-in watertight and crushproof tablet case. Commuters, business travelers—anyone traveling far, frequently, and with multiple gadgets. Steve Wozniak, perhaps? The all-black satchel has a heavy-duty plastic case for a tablet or ultrabook. A main compartment stows odds and ends, and there are two hidden zipper pockets on the back, one on the side (maybe for a camera?), and a front section with spots for your your pens, phone, and keys. Your back might ache, but this backpack fits a lot of crap. All that stuff gets pretty heavy and hard on the spine, in spite of the padded back panel and soft straps. Definitely the hard shell that envelops your precious (expensive) tablet. Lacks wheels—if it had just two it ...