My 7 essential laptop-bag items after decades of working remotely

My streamlined mobile office for 2026. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET My streamlined mobile office for 2026. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The trick to an effective mobile office is having everything you need - not everything you want. A decent charger and a power bank are vital to get me through the day. I also have a few random but highly useful bits, including things I've 3D-printed. It's getting a bit too hot in the office now -- the mercury hit a whopping 92 F here in the UK the other day, so we're already whining and wishing it was winter again -- so I'm spending less time in the office and more time out and about. But there's always work to do, so that means the trusty laptop often comes along. Just the other day, I cleaned out my laptop bag, threw out a fair bit of detritus I'd collected over the past few…