A police duty belt is great for holding cameras, phones, PDAs, multitools, and more.
Illustrations by Damien Scogin
We geeks have a crackhead-like dependence reinstall them over and over again, morning on personal electronics, gizmos, tools, and after morning. Decent men and women change other modern fetish objects. Things like pocket their pants every day, so what else can you do? computers, smartphones, LED flashlights, Well, you can head off to your nearest police USB thumbdrives, multitools, ZipLinq cables, supply store and buy yourself a genuine, profes-notepads, digital cameras, spare batteries, and sional duty belt. With your pouches suspended GPS units enhance our lives in obvious and off of that wide band of stiff, thick nylon or inexplicable ways, but we can’t deny that living leather (structurally speaking, it acts more like in the Push-Button World of Tomorrow greatly a supporting frame than a belt), a simple click complicates the otherwise straightforward task of the buckle leaves 6 pounds and $1,200 worth of changing one’s pants. of personal electronics hanging off your bed-
Every night, you have to empty all of your post until you get dressed again in the morning. pockets. Every morning, you have to fill ’em up And no, whistling the Clint Eastwood theme again. And portable pockets (in the form of belt from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as you put pouches) are a mere Band-Aid solution. Unless it on isn’t at all inappropriate. your electronics are machine-washable, you My day-to-day gunbelt configuration consists still need to unthread them from your belt and of a medium-size pouch for my cellphone, iPod,
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