The minimalist design of these felt iPad mini sleeves from Bholsa will take the fuss out of carrying around your tablet and its accessories. ($27-41)

Crafted from felt, the 11+ Felt Case is designed for small laptops and tablets, and includes storage compartments for headphones, cables, and other small items. This multi-tasking case is an ideal companion for a commuter or work traveler, and its soft touch is a welcome departure from typical tech fabrics.

The Sabino laptop sleeve is a cousin of the Aldo.

Here's the Daza iPad sleeve in green canvas.

The brand’s most successful product is its Klettersack—“kletter” means “climbing” in German. The bag is made from 1000d Cordura, a textile that retains its color and is abrasion resistant. The Klettersack features leather lash tabs, which can attach a sleeping pad, jacket, or other gear with accessory straps. Although lash tabs are often found on backpacks as an aesthetic detail, Topo prides itself on only using tabs on products where it is functional component. The pack features heavy-duty number ten zippers for easy pulling, and a yellow pack liner that provides a second layer of protection and makes it easy to find items within the bag. This yellow liner is a feature in all of Topo’s bags.

The Aldo iPad sleeve in gray is made from leather and a nylon-polyester. It's also on sale on Hasso's website.

Zac Lindemann's Companion laptop case offers a fold-out stand and a back that traps and gathers items within a neoprene cover, making it simple to transport the jumbled contents of a desk anywhere.

Designer Christiane Hogner, Bruxelles

Electrolux's Laptop Kitchen features a touchscreen display, but the word is still out on how well that will work if you’re wearing oven-mitts.

Sick of asking someone at the coffee shop to watch your laptop every time you need to step away? John Cochran's Scroll Top Lock Box security system addresses that common annoyance by safely locking your electronics.

Copeland’s Catalina furniture series features clean lines, organic influences, and geometric forms. The Catalina furnishings are suggestive of America’s midcentury modern designers, and will complement modern and traditional interiors alike. The Catalina Laptop Desk is a substantial furnishing with space-saving details. Featuring a file drawer, the Catalina Laptop Desk resembles a dresser.

This tactile case ($33.99) made of felt features a sleeve for an iPad Mini, as well as compartments for key accessories like headphones and chargers.

With a simple shape and thoughtful handle, the Unit Portables iPad Bag is a practical iPad holder with minimalist style. With a small profile, it can easily be coordinated with a messenger bag, backpack, or tote.

11+ felt iPad case by cloudandco for Leibal, $46-56 at store.dwell.com This felt case opens to reveal a sleeve for laptops or tablets, as well as storage compartments for headphones, cables, and other small pieces. It's available in two sizes—a smaller version that holds an iPad Mini, and a larger one that holds an iPad, iPad Air, 11-inch Macbook Air, or a Galaxy Tablet.

New York-based interior designer Nick Domitrovich will join Dwell on Design for a conversation about experimenting with new technologies like 3-D printing—including the drawbacks, such as creation of waste and potential safety issues that come with the ability to bypass engineering. Domitrovich works at ICRAVE, which developed an Airport iPad Experience at Delta Terminal D inside New York's LaGuardia Airport (pictured).

IPAD SLEEVE BY PORTEL BAGS Give the gift of protection and style. The company Portel is designing some intriguing iPad sleeves, bags, belts and wallets. We're obsessed with their iPad sleeves made from thick natural felt. These handmade sleeves are designed not only to dress up your iPad while not in use, but to protect it from those minor accidental bumps and bangs. These sleeves fit both the iPad and iPad2 and come in a range of thoughtful colors. price: $59.00

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Furnish says they are expanding to include furniture from brands like Restoration Hardware and Target.

A sign of the times: this baby thinks a magazine is a broken iPad.

Promo sleeve with cubic typography by artist, designer, and Hugo & Marie co-founder Mario Hugo for New York-based record label ESP Institute, 2011.

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The resulting app and accompanying scale start with a recipe and serving size and then walk through the instructions as you add each component.

A minimal felt sleeve to hold an iPad Pro, notepad, and Apple Pencil.

One qualm I had was that a large-screened laptop wouldn't fit in the appointed sleeve, meaning that this bag is a better bet for those of you with more compact computers.

The app can rescale mid-recipe and adjust for quantities, and suggest alternative ingredients if halfway through a recipe you realize you’re out of buttermilk.

DODOcase's stylish iPad covers come in a spectrum of hues like this one in tangerine orange.

If you want to stay motivated, focused, and productive through the winter months, here are some tips to help keep your spirits up as you breeze through your tasks at work.

One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop designed in 2005 by Yves Behar. Made of PC/ABS plastic, rubber, and other materials. Manufactured by Quanta Computer in Taiwan.

The bag has two tastefully designed organizer slash pockets on the outside. There is also an Internal padded Laptop sleeve with easy access as it is designed to allow you to open the bag wide.

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With plenty of storage compartments, an interior laptop sleeve, and room for a pair of shoes, clothing, and accessories, this Overnight Bag from Unit Portables is a serious upgrade to Dad’s old duffel bag.

This logo-free, classic canvas backpack is handmade in Joshu + Vela's San Francisco studio and features a laptop sleeve on the interior as well as an outside pocket with two compartments. $165 at The Primary Essentials.

At the entry looking upward towards a Velux skylight, a vertical "sleeve" is made of stacked end grain plywood. The theme of vertical and horizontal architectural elements providing different environmental perspectives carries through to the rest of the home. Horizontal forms look out to the lake, while the vertical columns look up the sky.

FOR THE STUDENT This logo-free, classic canvas backpack is handmade in Joshu + Vela's San Francisco studio and features a laptop sleeve on the interior as well as an outside pocket with two compartments. $165 at The Primary Essentials.