(CNN) — JanSport is experimenting with a high-tech backpack to give teens another way to express themselves. The company has developed 300 backpacks with programmable fabric, allowing users to ...

You may well consider QR codes as a relic of a past digital age, but leading bagmaker JanSport is having none of it. The company has recently developed a backpack that acts as a kind of QR code so ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

Mr. Yowell was born and grew up in rural Kansas, but his mother hailed from Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood ... the latter provided him with a JanSport backpack that he used in walking ...

Skip Yowell, a Kansas boy and avowed hippie who made it to Mt. Everest, co-founded the JanSport company and sold backpacks by the millions, has died. He was 69. Yowell had lung cancer, his sister ...

And such is the success of the brand that a great many of those bags will be JanSport backpacks – a design that dates from the 1960s that has come to define the modern school and college bag.

JanSport is experimenting with a high-tech backpack to give teens another way to express themselves. The company has developed 300 backpacks with programmable fabric, allowing users to share a ...