Your Guide to Innovative, Useful Travel Accessories
There is a meaningful difference between a travel accessory and a genuinely useful one. The market is flooded with travel gadgets promising to solve every inconvenience of modern travel, but the accessories worth your attention are the ones designed around a real problem, built from materials that hold up over years of use, and thoughtful enough to earn a permanent place in your packing routine.
At Briggs & Riley, we've spent decades engineering travelware that earns its place in the lives of serious travelers. That same philosophy carries into our accessories collection. Every piece exists because it solves a real problem. What follows is a curated look at the most innovative and useful travel accessories we make, and why each one stands apart from the standard options.
What Makes a Travel Accessory Worth Buying?
The best travel accessories share a few qualities that set them apart from mere novelties. They address friction points that experienced travelers frequently encounter. They're made from materials that survive checked baggage handling, frequent washing, and years of use. And they integrate intelligently with the rest of your gear.
With those standards in mind, here are the accessories that meet them.
1. Carry-On Compression Packing Cube Set
Most packing cubes expand. Fewer compress. The distinction matters more than it sounds.
Our Carry-On Compression Packing Cube Set features a 2-inch zipper system that allows more than just expansion. It lets you compress your clothes back down to a firm, organized shape after packing. That means you can maximize space on the way out and still maintain a tidy, structured bag on the return trip. The cubes are sized specifically to fit Briggs & Riley carry-on bags, so every inch of interior space is accounted for by design.
Each cube is made from fabric produced from 14 to 15 recycled plastic bottles, earning it a verifiable sustainability credential.
Mesh panels on each cube give you instant visibility into what's packed inside, and double zipper pulls make access easy in tight overhead bins or cramped hotel drawers.
For travelers who prefer checked luggage, the Check-In Compression Packing Cube Set includes three sizes (small, medium, and large) for versatility on longer trips or more complex packing needs.
2. Hanging Laundry Compression Cube
This is the most functionally inventive piece in our accessories line, and it's worth understanding why.
At departure, it functions as our largest compression cube, holding 22.7 to 31.2 liters of clothing with the same 2-inch compression system found in the packing cube sets. By the end of your trip, it transitions into a hanging laundry bag, keeping worn items separated from clean clothes with no need for a secondary bag.
The detail that makes this work in practice is the HideAway™ hook, a branded tuck-away hook that folds flat during packing and deploys for hotel door or rod hanging on arrival.
It's a small feature with an outsized impact: a laundry bag that can hang rather than sit loose on a bathroom floor is a meaningfully better experience in any hotel room.
For travelers who pack to wear, not to display, the Hanging Laundry Compression Cube earns space in a bag on every trip.
3. Double-Sided Packing Cube
The core innovation here is the PVC-lined compartment on one side of the cube. That lining wipes clean, meaning this compartment functions as a sanitary, waterproof holding area for damp or used items while the opposite compartment stays clean and dry.
It's not a complicated idea, but it's one that's truly useful. Typically, separating clean from used items requires two separate bags or a dedicated wet pouch. The Double-Sided Packing Cube handles both functions in one organized piece, made from recycled fabric (three recycled bottles per unit).
The practical application is wide: swimwear, workout clothes, lightly worn garments, and damp toiletry items. For anyone who's improvised this kind of separation, having a designated, wipeable solution built into your packing system is a quiet but real upgrade.
4. Tech Kit
Tech organizers are common. Tech organizers built to slot into a specific, dedicated pocket on a bag are not.
We designed our Tech Kit to integrate directly with the @work bags, which feature a proprietary Tech Kit pocket sized and shaped to accept it. The result is an organizer that stays in place within your bag rather than floating around or requiring its own retrieval every time you pass through security.
The material quality is consistent with the Briggs & Riley standard: 800D ballistic nylon on the exterior with top-grain leather touchpoints and a custom leather nameplate. Inside, elastic-bloused pockets hold individual cables separately rather than letting them pile together, and a contrasting interior lining makes it easy to spot what you're looking for in low light.
For @work bag owners, this is the most natural and complete way to manage cables, chargers, and small electronics without adding separate pouches. For anyone else, it's a well-built tech organizer that will outlast most alternatives.
5. TrekSafe Luggage Cover
Luggage covers seem simple until you own a bag with an expansion system, at which point things get complicated.
We built the TrekSafe Luggage Cover specifically around this problem. Lycra® side panels stretch to accommodate a fully expanded Sympatico™, which means the cover will fit before and after expanding your bag.
Most generic covers are sized for a single bag dimension and become impractical the moment that dimension changes, but this cover adapts as needed.
Additional thoughtful details set this apart from standard covers: Velcro® closure along the bottom adjusts to fit, strategically placed openings keep wheels and handles accessible so you can roll or carry the bag normally while the cover is on, and a zippered back pocket with a webbing loop holds keys or a luggage tag in an immediately accessible spot.
For travelers who check bags regularly, this is the kind of accessory that earns its place immediately and never leaves the rotation.
6. Translucent Pouch Set
Not every useful travel accessory requires proprietary engineering. The Translucent Pouch Set earns its place through a different kind of practicality: TSA-compliant clear construction that allows security officers and you to see exactly what's inside without unpacking, combined with the material quality and construction standard that Briggs & Riley applies across our line.
These are the pouches you reach for when organizing toiletries, medications, small electronics, or any carry-on essentials that benefit from instant visibility. Our organizational travel accessories are simply built better.
Quality That Carries Through Every Category
There's another distinction worth noting across all of these products: Our Simple as That® lifetime guarantee extends to the Briggs & Riley accessories line. That's genuinely unusual in this category. We make a long-term commitment to our products because we build our accessories to last, and we stand behind them when something falls short.
For travelers who are particular about what earns space in their bag, that commitment matters. It means what you buy today becomes a long-term part of your travel system.
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