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Just How Rip-Proof Is the New Herschel Bag?

Herschel makes cool backpacks and now the company has a new line of bags that they say is rip-proof. How rip-proof? We put it through a battery of tests.

Released on 03/20/2016

Transcript

(upbeat music)

Herschel is the unofficial back pack of cool kids.

And a new collection of bags has just arrived.

The biggest selling point?

You can't rip these bags.

No matter how hard I try,

there's no way I can rip this thing.

Let's try a pen.

I can get it to go through.

But, the second I take it out, it goes away.

Even if I push it through, and then try and rip, nothing.

It's immediately gone.

There's a special technology in here that,

once you kind of rub it, the hole goes away

and it immediately seals itself.

So, let's try something sharper.

How about a knife.

You puncture this through.

You can see it's tearing.

It definitely made a hole.

But I can't really rip it any bigger than it is right now.

So maybe we need a bigger knife.

(metal scrape)

Okay, so it looks like a machete directly to

your Herschel Sealtech bag, it's going to suffer.

(laughing)

So, why would we do that?

We just wanted to see what would happen.