Ah, a Motocompo 2.0.

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It seems like the world has turned away from the briefcase, and some Honda exec, still stuck in '85, said offhand, “ya know what would be really cool…” and now he gets to carry two briefcases.

I’d be more interested in something that converted into a functional rolling hard case (with storage) than this thing. This is just another thing to carry.

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Japanese business execs very much are all still living in 1985. Japan, especially its corporate culture, is infamous for being stuck in the past. This is bafflingly at odds with its outside perception of being a nation full of bleeding edge innovation. And it is… but only in some aspects.

Japan is almost exclusively run by old men. Traditionalism is tough to budge there. A ridiculous amount of mission critical business communication in Japan still relies on fax machines. Not email. Not messenger apps. Fax machines. In 2023.

Anyhow, even if the rest of the world has turned away from the briefcase we’ve just replaced it with the laptop bag anyway.

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I live in the US and a business asked me if I could fax them something just a couple of weeks ago. I replied “From where? 1985?”

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I jokingly call myself a weeb because I like some Anime/manga/LN/WN and had/have an interest in their history and culture… but because of such interest in history I also know of a lot of terrible things they’ve done, plus how conservative and bigoted the country is. They’ve always been resistant ro change, and proud of it. I haven’t fully kept up, but like America, they also love to hide their atrocities.

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Especially since it is probably very heavy.

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The specs seem pretty terrible to me.

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Yeah, I guess they sacrificed specs in favor of taking less space and probably lower weight.

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I think it’s beautiful in a cassette futurism kinda way.

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And it called my mother a very nasty name!

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I just want to take this and ride it through the airport

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They probably wouldn’t let you bring it in, but now I’m picturing someone leading the TSA on a chase through the airport on one of these things:

“Sir, you’re not allowed to bring th-”

rides off

“You’ll never take my scooter!”

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Until you get in a high speed chase with a TSA agent on a Segway…

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I’d watch that buddy-cop-comedy.

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Just make sure you take your shoes off first… and your belt, and any jewelry. It’s probably best just to show up naked.

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Wait, what?

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It’s now my dream to have one of these

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I don’t believe you, that sounds too magical to exist…

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Throw a Repsol livery on it and I’m sold

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