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umbROLLa is an innovative umbrella you can drag around.

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Some of us just don’t like to hold the umbrellas in the hands when no longer using them, and they prefer to drag them around…until the umbrellas are totally broken as a result. The ‘umbROLLa’, featuring a small ball in the top, is rightly intended for those who have that queer hobby, while not damaging the gadget. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Dangling Umbrella

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Lose your umbrella again? Not likely with the Dangling Umbrella.

It’s a busy world filled with numerous affairs and that means a big risk of forgetting to pick up your umbrellas, no matter you’ve placed them on the table, in the doorway or simply on the floor nearby. Well, you just innocently forget the umbrellas. Dangling Umbrella, however, is an umbrella that wouldn’t be easily forgotten. The umbrella, featuring a sliding handle, could grip the table more stably than ordinary ones also due to the silicon on the underside of the cap. Moreover, the cap will light up with the words “Don’t forget” if it is opened. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Air Umbrella by Je Sung Park

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Air Umbrella is not a real product but a concept that uses a sheet of steady air as the canopy! It features a hollow stick which absorbs in and blows out air to form a barrier between you and the raindrops. And the better point is that, the size of the air canopy could be easily changed to meet your different needs through a simple work. Isn’t that magic? After the thing gets real, not only we’ll change the way to use an umbrella, but the definition of the word ‘umbrella’ may be changed, too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Umbrella Lamp

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Never rains but the umbrellas are always needed inside your room. They’re lamps. Designed by Marie-louise Gustafsson, the umbrella-shaped lamps are quite different from ordinary table or floor lamps, and you can either hang them in the air or set them on the floor. Bulb included. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Heart Umbrella

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Your love is always the sun that brightens my life, even if we’re surrounded with a fierce storm. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lock your umbrellas

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How many umbrellas have you ever lost? Do you still prepare to pay for your carelessness? If not, you may need an umbrella equipped with a lock. Just lock it on a pole, and you would no longer lose an umbrella. But this time, it is the key that you should pay high attention to. Do not lose your key. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rain Brush Umbrella By Liu Hsiang-Ling

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Recently I’ve been hearing much about modern umbrellas, or more exactly, modern umbrellas with a traditional meaning. Designed with a paint-brush like tip, the Rain Brush Umbrella by Liu Hsiang-Ling will turn boring rainy days into funny drawing days. Just fold the umbrella up, dip it into a rain puddle, you can then draw a picture with water on the ground. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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You’re here!

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Shaped like the little red dot on GPS navigation system, the lovely red umbrella is designed to fix a position on you, as if it is saying: “Hey, I’m right here!”

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DROP Umbrella Free-bag

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Not that romantic as described in novels, films, walking in the rain happens to be boring and annoying frequently. Now the so-called “DROP” has come to solve the problem. Aiming to free our hands and allow everybody an easy walking, the an innovative umbrella freebag is composed of a flexible rubber umbrella grip to intake your umbrella, as well as several small pockets to contain daily items. Still equipped with non-slip pads on the inner face, the bag is of low risk to slip from your shoulder. It also features a thermometer to show the temperature.

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Allochroic Umbrella

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The classical dancing scene by Gene Kellyin the movie “Singin’ in the Rain” has impressed countless viewers. But even if you do not know how to dance, you can still be a focus with an allochroic umbrella in the rain. As the umbrella will change into multicolored from black-white in water, it looks quite outstanding in the dull rainy days.

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Inflatable cloud umbrella

Although it is not hard to get a unique umbrella, all of the so-called unique umbrella are all based on the skeleton and skin structure. But this Cloud Umbrella is an exception. In order to unfold it, you just need to push and pull the air drum built in the handle. It might that you are the only one with white clouds floating over the head.

Designer: Joonsoo Kim

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Rainvisor

Sitting in the car can protect you from getting wet. But the moment you get in or out of the car during a shower of rain, being wet is inevitable. This brilliant Rainvisor is designed to resolve this problem. It is mounted on the top of the car door and the folding structure will unfold into a surface to offer you better protection. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Inflatable umbrella

A foldable umbrella occupies only a little room, somebody still uncomfortable with it. Maybe this inflatable one is better for them?

It can be used in the same way as a balloon. Oh, more strong for sure. It can be inflated easily with the help of a hand pump and deflated at the pull of a handle. In order to make you more attractive, it comes with several LEDs which can light up you and the road around you in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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UNbrella

Conventional umbrellas come with a fixed surface. Although it is changeable, you cannot replace it easily. This eco-friendly design is more flexible. It is actually only a collapsible umbrella skeleton without any surface. So you can put anything such as newspapers, plastic bags or whatever you want to serve as the protecting surface. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Elegant sun umbrella

Usually the sun umbrella is in the same shape of traditional one used in raining days. But sun umbrella is a good accessory rather than mere a tool. Therefore, most people intend to take umbrellas on the shoulders. This is what the new umbrella doing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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