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Japanese designer Kota Nezu has recently released this Clock Parasol, something that has drawn an inspiration from sun dials. It comes with many lines on the board of the umbrella—the vertical lines indicating hours while the horizontal lines indicating solstices and equinoxes. It is also built with a compass on the handle, which helps you to find magnetic north. Based on those designs, you only need to place the hood in the same position of the earth, look up at the umbrella and then get an approximate time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When the rain comes, take a Goggle Umbrella and wonder around the city, we may go into another world, a world that is bit of the same as the water world of fish. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Despite that we’re growing a little older year by year, we can still live a happy life with childish delight. So never say these Clouds and Umbrellas are especially designed for kids, coz they’re actually also made for the adults. Just wish everybody always to be in a good mood. [Read the rest of this entry...]

According to Swedish architecture studio Visiondivision, umbrellas can not only protect you from rainwater, but also offer you pure water for drinking if needed. And that’s the main idea of the ‘Storm Flipper’, a new drinking fountain prototype designed for a competition entry. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Umbrellas are never expected to fly like a kite…  unless the weather is fine and the umbrellas do look nice in the sky. So here we’d like to share a new umbrella with you guys, which is collaborated by YuKwang Kang and Jinsu Cho to fly like a kite. The concept also features LED lights that will glimmer at night so that you can still enjoy a fun time of flying an umbrella (or a kite) in the dark. Just imagine the fantastic scene of an umbrella flying freely with various lights shining like stars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

SUSU is a smart umbrella case that comes with super absorption power to make keeping wet umbrella no longer a problem. What makes the umbrella holder so magic are the numerous small absorption tentacles built inside the gadget, which can have your soaking wet umbrella dry in a few seconds. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One is always at choice whatever the circumstances are presented, and the most common thing I can think of is whether or not to use the umbrella. Surely the umbrellas do a good job to keep the users from rain, but on the other hand they make our bags and books wet after using! Therefore the umbrellas need some changes, for example, they can have a double-duty handle. Made by Yuento, the “Magic Umbrella” comes with a long, hollow plastic cone, which acts as both a handle and a portable box to store the wet folded umbrella. That means, you slide the umbrella into the cone, twist on the cap, and then you can carry the umbrella in the bags without worrying that water may get your other items wet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Rain Drum, umbROLLa, Air Umbrella, Rain Brush Umbrella and Allochroic Umbrella…new umbrellas with innovative improvements have come forth continuously and they all have left us a deep impression. The Wheel Umbrella will be another surprise. Featuring a rolling wheel rather than a fixed point, the new umbrella can be dragged around to leave behind lovely smiles. So every step you take forward, several smiles then appear on the ground. I’m not a kid any more, but luckily I can still feel the happy in childhood with the Wheel Umbrella. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Take care not to be scolded by others for being impolite when holding such an umbrella in the streets…But the conditions will be completely different if you overlook them from a tall building, just as you can see from the picture below. It seems as if people on the ground are indicating the flight path for the birds in the air. O(∩_∩)O [Read the rest of this entry...]

Rain Drum, a recent work from a South Korea-based designer Dong Min Park, has been very popular on the Internet, and deemed as “an interesting amusement for boring rainy days”. The shade of the umbrella is made up of five different wax cloths, to imitate the different frequency of the hi-hat, crash, tom-tom, bass and snare. So next time you’re in the rain with such an umbrella, you’ll surely experience something new and enjoyable. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We seldom roll the umbrella up in the right way, and we have to do that once more to have it fastened. But that happens merely because we’re too careless? I don’t think so, and neither do the industrial designers. So to offer a clever and effective solution to that problem, they’ve come up with the Double Sided Umbrella, which features a magnetic peg and ring so that the umbrella will get easily fastened no matter in which direction you roll it up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]