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Steve Wozniak offers a peek inside his travel backpack and it turns out there's an entire Apple Store's worth of products resting on the Apple co-founder's shoulders.

July 17, 2012

Fans of Apple like to say that the world's most successful technology company was built on the shoulders of giants—and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is apparently taking that literally.

Woz, who created Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with the late Steve Jobs, carries what looks to be most of the company's current product line in his travel backpack, Gizmodo reported Tuesday.

Wozniak gave the tech site a look at the contents of the pack he carries everywhere and the seemingly endless array of smartphones, tablets, laptops, watches, ereaders, adapters, gadgets, gizmos, and assorted dongles is enough to give us a vicarious hernia.

The beloved tech guru ended his full-time employment at Apple in 1987 and had a contentious relationship with Jobs, but he's remained a huge fan and evangelist for the company, often queuing up with the masses for new product releases at his local Apple Store.

So what's inside Woz's backpack? Gizmodo snapped a shot of all the gear laid out on a table (below, click to enlarge) but keep in mind that a pair of iPhones and an iPad included in the lot actually belong to his wife Janet.

All told, Wozniak reckons there's about 50 pounds or more of gear in his backpack, including but not limited to computers and electronics (he also carries "tons of Sharpies" for signing autographs and "tons of pencils" for playing "pencil games" on airplanes, for example). Here's a partial list of what Woz carries around on his assuredly aching back:

  • One MacBook Pro
  • AirPort Express and MacBook Pro 85W magsafe adapter
  • One iPad with case and keyboard
  • One Kindle
  • One AT&T iPhone 4S
  • One Verizon iPhone 4S
  • Two unlocked AT&T Galaxy Nexus smartphones
  • A Droid Razr smartphone
  • ItUltimate Ears UE18 earplugs "for flights" plus a separate pair "for concerts"
  • "Multiple Gameboy Lights" plus Gameboy link cables
  • Binoculars
  • A Canon battery charger (Woz keeps the camera in a separate bag)
  • ItTwo Garmin GPS navigators (one for the backpack, one for the car)
  • Two Verizon 4G MiFi devices and two Verizon 3G MiFi devices
  • An iPod Nano
  • A pair of Mutewatch watches, grey and white
  • Assorted power strips, plugs, adapters, and extension cords, including "plenty of foreign adapters"
  • A Jambox
  • "Red-blue-purple-yellow-green laser pointers"
  • Sunglasses
  • Prism glasses "for watching movies in bed"

All that gadgetry takes up seven bins at airport security, so try not to get in line behind Woz if you can help it.