This year’s TechEd backpack features a number of safety features that may prove useful in surviving the week.
Aside from numerous pockets that could store (and conceal) just about anything, the pack comes equipped with an aluminum water bottle on a carabineer and what appears to be a drogue chute.
It’s a good thing to slow down, especially in this fast paced technology wonderland we all live in, though I question the thought behind the need to deploy something like this indoors. I may test it out next time while biking.
UPDATE: It may not be a chute at all. After closer inspection it may actually be one of the following:
What do you think?