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.

Designer: Kota Nezu (Japanese)

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.

Selling Price: NT$ 580

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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.

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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.

Designer: Visiondivision

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.

Designer: YuKwang Kang & Jinsu Cho

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.

Selling Price: 1280Yen

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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.

Selling Price: 3990 Yen

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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.

Designer: Lin Cheng-Han, Chung Yu-Hsun, Cheng Yu-Ting & Chen Shaw-Chen

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

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.

Designer: Dong Min Park

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.

Designer: Prof. Jeon Sung-Su, Prof. Kim Ki-Pil, Prof. Ku Ja-Yoon, Kang Ju-Hyung & Lee Tae-Hoon

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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.

Designer: Qian Jiang & Yiying Wu

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.

Designer: Song Wonji, Lee Yu Kyung & Kim Hakyung

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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.

Designer: Je Sung Park

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.

Designer: Marie-louise Gustafsson

Your love is always the sun that brightens my life, even if we’re surrounded with a fierce storm.

Selling Price: €41.67

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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.

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.

Designer: Liu Hsiang-Ling

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!”

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.

Designer: Omer Haciomeroglu

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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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

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.

Designer: Jeon Sung-Su， Kim Ki-Pil，Lee Tae-Hoon & Ku Ja-Yun

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.

Designer: RKS Design

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.

Designer: Shiu Yuk Yuen

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.

It comes with a weird palm-shaped surface which allow the users to get the shadow while putting the umbrella on the shoulder.

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It is said that some martial artists can use an umbrella as their weapon. I guess the umbrella they used is not gonna be a common one, at least it should be as strong as this one.

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With several built-in LEDs, this umbrella can light your path in the dark. Plus, it’s also very romantic.

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Why walking in the rain, you might still have many other things to do except holding the umbrella. So, you gonna like this unique one. It could be easily strap on your shoulder so that you do not need to hold it with your hand.

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With the double-surface, whit umbrella allows you to carry the wet with a bag transformed from your umbrella.

Designer: Seung Hee Son

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Using Sky Umbrella is a good way to get out of blue. But for women, there’s another thing which could make them happy and even crazy, Yeah, you’re right! It is rose.

With a unique design, this umbrella is shaped like a beautiful rose in when folded. Just give your lovers a umbrella like this in rainy day, she gonna be the happiest women in the world.

Designer: Nothing Design Group

Many people feel uncomfortable in raining days. If they could see the blue sky with cloud floating, this feeling might be better.

This umbrella uses a interior painting to provide a bright sky for those who hates raining day.

Price: $48

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There’s a collapsible version costing $35.

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This double umbrella could double the rain coverage for lovers. Plus, when closed, it seems like a typical umbrella.

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With the built-in LEDs, this umbrella is full of poetry.

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This rain protector is apparently the combination of umbrella and raincoat. Although it is not a good idea for real raining, your kids might like it.

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This umbrella could collect rain to fill the squirt gun. Therefore, you can play water with your friends with umbrellas. It’s a funny concept.

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Put your wringing umbrella into this pot. It could provide extra water for the plants.

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This odd umbrella could avoid hitting others by pulling the handle. Video after the jump

Invertor: Joo Youn Paek

With a sponge base, your umbrella could stand. And the sponge will sop up the water from your umbrella. It’s both a functional design piece and a sculpture.

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This Pileus Umbrella could play video, display pictures, upload and download picture from internet and even tell you the traffic condition via GPS. It’s cool!

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