Today we are reviewing the Metrosafe X Anti-theft Sling Pack
and the website says that it's made for men but...
I think it can be unisex because I have used it.
Yeah, Candy looks really good in it.
Yeah? Thanks.
Oh, and another thing it is made with recycled bottles.
Mhmm, yup.
So we're pretty excited that Pacsafe is starting to repurpose a lot of materials
that are bad for the environment and making them into cool bags.
Bags, backpacks... everything they've got.
Yeah, so they started that pretty recently and you'll see like a whole line of their items
that will say Econyl or this one says recycled bottles,
but they have other sustainable items too, so that's pretty cool that they're starting to do that.
Yeah, and they even have on their site what percentage of bottles are used like on this one
so I thought that was pretty detailed information for people who are thinking, are they really? Are they really recycling?
But they are.
We trust them.
So yeah, we thought we'd go into detail about this bag to show you all the cool features it has.
I took it out while I was wearing it recently
when I was walking in a small, quaint downtown area with Zooey and Crystal and Kuma
and I actually wore it in the front.
I like to wear my bags in the front.
I know probably for men, they'll probably wear it more like this.
In the back, yeah.
But I prefer to wear my sling bags in the front. It's just the style that I like right now and it's very easy to put on.
The strap is very easily adjustable.
They have a new locking system, which it took us a little bit to figure out.
Yeah, I could not get it. Candy got it.
I figured it out!
What was this one called again?
PopNLock Security Clip.
Yeah, so if you kind of think about the name, it kind of makes sense on how to operate it.
But they do have little images here where it says lock and unlock
so right now it's locked... actually, it's unlocked.
This is locked.
Unlocked.
And then you actually have to push it in...
Actually, am I doing it wrong? Yup.
So this is unlocked. Sorry, hahaha.
It's good for the people who are trying to steal your stuff.
So you push this in and then it pops open.
So this is how that works
so very difficult if you're trying to steal a bag trying to figure that out
because by the time they probably figured it out, you've already caught them. I would assume.
It really took me like five minutes to try to figure this out.
I was just like, 'How does this come apart? Does this go with it?'
Because even if you click it this way to the unlock position, you still don't know what to do.
Then you have to push it in and then it pops out.
So it's very clever. As always with Pacsafe.
Yes, so if you're wondering what that is useful for...
For example, say you are having lunch at a cafe outdoors and there's nowhere to really set your bag.
If you want to lock it to your chair or your table, that's kind of what you could use this for
so you can be creative and use it for many different ways.
So that's one of the locking features and then another one is...
This Roobar system here
and it's pretty similar to the last one.
They have this with the backpacks that we really like. The anti-theft women's backpack.
So what do is you clasp these two together
and then you put it inside here and close it
and then you lock it.
Oh, there.
Did I lock it?
Oh there.
There you go. So now it's locked.
And it's hard to get into.
So it's like a three step process here to unlock the back.
Again, I don't think thieves can really figure that out.
That's a classic Pacsafe anti-theft feature.
Yeah.
They call this one the Roobar Sport Locking System.
It's just a tad different like the clutch is a little bit shorter and this is a little bit different here.
I'm amazed how they kind of come up with like these different locking mechanisms instead of keeping all their bags the same.
Maybe they do that because they're like, 'You know what? If someone figures out that one...'
Yeah.
They're not going to know what this one is...
So that is the other locking feature and I think...Oh! Oh yes,
and this is their classic one too is the zipper here
when you close it you push it through this little thing.
You see the fabric right here?
So you pull it through -- so if a thief wants to unzip your bag, it's not that easy.
You kind of have to slide it through and then you can unzip it.
So another tricky little way to unzip the bag.
Of course, I would suggest always practicing how to use these bags before you go on your trip because you don't want to be...
I think it took us a good 15-20 minutes to figure out all the features in this bag.
Also, this bag uses material which they call th eXomesh Slashguard.
So it's kind of crazy. It's made with stainless steel material
so if there are guys out there -- or women. They could be thieves too - they want to slash your bag open, they can't do it.
I can't even believe there's thieves out there that would do that.
Oh yeah, thieves have all sorts of ways they want to steal your stuff
and slashing your bag is one of them, like when you're not looking and they can just slash it and take your stuff
so that eXomesh Slashguard will prevent that from happening.
Can you imagine if there's a thief getting frustrated not being able to open it?
He's like, 'You know what? I'm going to pull out my last trick and try to slash it open.'
and they can't get it open. They'd probably hate you.
Not only is the outside material made of eXomesh Slashguard material, but the strap is also made of that too
because again, thieves like to slash the straps, just like easily take it from you,
but that is impossible with these bags because it's protected by that slash guard strap.
So you might be wondering, what is this?
This right here, we were confused about this too - we thought maybe it had anti-theft features
but it's just part of the design so you can use it for whatever you want to.
I decided that, you know what, if I'm in an area where I'm not afraid of someone really stealing my stuff,
I could hang my sunglasses there
or someone suggested earphones
if you want to put that there
so it's just like a cute little area -- not cute, haha, but cool...
Yeah, it's just like a design element, but you can also make use of it too to hang things on.
Yeah.
Now that we've gone over the outside anti-theft features, we're going to show you what kind of features are inside.
So let me go ahead and open this.
Yeah, got it down.
So like many of their bags, it is RFID-safe
and if you're not aware of what that is, it's like a layer of material that helps prevent thieves from scanning your valuable information
like on your credit cards or your passport.
And yes, it does happen. It has not personally happened to me but I do have a couple of friends where it has happened to them
in countries where they had their wallet in the back of their pants
and they just come scan and grab their credit card numbers, so that's kind of crazy.
They have like some sort of device where it's easy to scan your card information.
And apparently, that device is pretty cheap, which I was kind of surprised when I heard about that.
Yeah, so they can steal like your credit card info, your passport info,
if you have like ID badges, they can steal that kind of info too
so this material helps protect that from happening.
So anything that has that kind of information, you want to stick it in this pouch where it says RFID-safe.
another cool feature about this bag is that it has a padded sleeve,
so you can fit in your 10-inch tablet
so this is a 10-inch iPad
and it will fit in nicely inside here within the padded sleeve.
I want to say that it doesn't cover the entire screen.
Yeah, so maybe put it in backwards like this.
So put it in backwards so that you can protect your screen.
Because if you can see there, there's a little bit of an opening there.
But it's padded, so you can put in your 10 inch.
It fits in snugly, so I think 10 inches is the max you can fit in here.
There's also two pockets on the side.
One of them is the RFID-safe, so you can put it in your passport or your ID or badges or credit cards in here to protect your information.
And then there's another pouch on the other side about the same size.
In addition to the iPad, you can fit in multiple other things like a wallet,
I also like to carry selfie sticks with me a lot
and I think if you're like a vlogger or if you just document things by yourself, these selfie sticks come in handy
so that could go in there.
If you want to put a GoPro stick in there, you can also put that in there.
And sunglasses case, of course. You want to have your shades to look cool.
And then you can still fit in more things like if you have a little hard drive.
So that's that's pretty snug right there.
That kind of gives you an idea of like how much things you could put in here
These are just like my type of things that I would put in.
I think any more than that, it's going to start looking a little bulky.
Yeah, so this is probably the max amount of things that you can put in before it starts looking weird or heavy for you too.
Especially if you're going to wear it up front. That's going to be kind of weird.
But in the back, it shouldn't matter.
And then in the back, there's another compartment here. It's very slim.
So you can put in a little more things in here such as a boarding pass, tickets, things like that.
And they also have an internal attachment inside here so you can attach -- you can clip on your keys, so you can easily find them
when you're looking for them because we're the type that always loses things.
Especially inside our purses and such, so having things like this where it's just attached like that to your bag...
Yeah, especially when you're traveling. You know when you have to take your keys with you, but you never use it, right? When you're traveling.
And then when I come back... and usually I'm tired or it's like late at night
and I'm like so frustrated because I'm going through my bag looking for the keys
and I'm like, uuggghhh, where's my keys!?
So having that is really convenient
which I will say, Pacsafe, for the women's Citysafe backpack, please add that. Hahaha!
It's the one thing I really want in that bag.
That would be really nice. That'll be really nice to have.
That'll make it perfect.
Yeah, right now it's 99.9% perfect. Hahaha!
So the Pacsafe Citysafe bag that we're talking about, we did review that too,
so if you want to check that out, we'll link it below and put it up in one of those corners.
And there is one more zipper up here in the front -- or a zippered compartment
which we showed earlier when we were demonstrating the secure zip tab
and again, I wouldn't put anything bulky in here. Maybe smaller items like a cell phone.
Yeah, so that fits in here nicely.
and I like to have my phone easily accessible
so I would much rather use that front compartment over the back ones.
If you have it on, it'll be much easier to get a hold of it if it's in the front.
So the volume of this bag, which a lot of people usually ask us, what the volume is.
It is 10 liters and oh, I did want to mention one thing.
We noticed that there was like a little strap here
and I feel like this is a really good strap to have if you want to hang it up
because these bags -- these sling bags, when you hang up it, it's kind of awkward
so I really like that they put this little strap here to be able to hang it up nicely.
Yeah, a nice little feature.
And the number one question we get asked all the time, which we always forget to review, is the strap length.
So we're actually going to show you in real time how long this is.
So right now for us, it's perfect.
It's the shortest length, which is...
So it's at 20 inches.
So 20 inches is about normal for us
and again, Candy is 5 foot 9.
So it fits like this on me. Basically, the bottom part fits right on like where my waistline is.
So that's 20 inches of the strap length. The very minimum you can go on that, right?
And if I open it... yup, that's the minimum.
Now, if I lengthen it...
Alright, I think we've maxed it out, so max size is...
hold that there.
Zooey, our assistant here.
34. No?
I want to say about 35, yeah.
About 35 inches max.
But you have to also calculate in this little strap here on both sides, so I would say it's a little bit over 35
Obviously, 35 is way, way, way too long for us.
Unless if you want to wear it like below the hip.
But yeah, I prefer it to be short where it fits right on my back above my hip line or above my waist.
Alright, so I think we pretty much covered everything about this bag.
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