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more about #umbrellas more comments → met2art: Now that is the definition of a functioning alcoholic. more » Homerjay is utterly alone.: I don't know what the big deal is about filming Tiananmen Square. Nothing ever happened there. Nothing. Happened. more » Curves: I remember this as if it were yesterday, and I still am in awe of the courage shown by the people there. The image of "tank man" will forever be in my... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: Well, on the plus side, the operatives umbrella just so happens to match their pants! more » philibuster: Is it this guy under the umbrella? more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: If you can add in a webcam and a wifi antenna, I might contemplate getting it. more » Gann: Along with the above-mentioned pooling problem, this designer has apparently never heard of what architects call a drip edge. It forces water to drip... more » Toastie: Are approach to preventing rain from getting us wet is all wrong. We need to move to the offensive stance and start attacking the source of our proble... more » Kaiser-Machead: Add a Fishin' Lakitu to burn people I don't like, and I'll buy ten. more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: How about an umbrella that won't turn itself inside out during a hurricane, or if it does, you can just snap the damn thing back the way it was suppos... more » -
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Toothpick Umbrella Lamp Finally Makes Use of Girly-Drink Accessories
I wonder if reader Jacob Burghart and Scott Jarvie are drinking buddies, because they each needed about a thousand frilly drinks to get the materials needed for their projects. Regardless, Jacob's lamp design is beautiful in idea and execution. More » -
#china
Chinese Cops Block Cameras With Umbrellas On Tiananmen Square 20th Anniversary
Our friend Elaine in China sent us a report that Chinese police use umbrellas to thwart camera crews from shooting video at Tiananmen Square. Here's a whole CNN report of the protest's 20th anniversary, replete with government-endorsed in-yer-face umbrella madness: More » -
#umbrellas
Cloud Umbrella Leaves You High and Dry, And By "Dry" I Mean "Wet"
Kudos to Dutch designer Joonsoo Kim for attempting to give the plain old umbrella a whimsical cumulus makeover. Unfortunately, I think there might be some problems with the concept. More » -
#winebottleumbrella
Is.a.Brella Wine-Bottle Umbrella Doesn't Contain Wine, Sadly
First I thought "ah... what a cute gimmick" about this Is.a.Brella thing, but then I realized the essential cleverness of the design. You're in a rush to get on the train on a rainy day: furl your Is.a.Brella, leap aboard, slide it into the bottle cover keeping it compact and tidy, and stop all those trapped raindrops from splashing onto people nearby. Neat, and pretty unusual looking too. So I get it... but what I don't get is the marketing-speak from the website, auto-translated by Google. More » -
#concept
Umbrella Stand Uses Runoff to Water Plants
Here's a simple concept: An umbrella stand that directs wet umbrella run off to a plant-filled tray. I one day hope to live in a modern house with modern furniture surrounded by geometrically symmetric patches of indoor lawn, so I enjoy the idea of this immensely. [what else via bigchief.it] -
