Wezzoo, an international social and time weather services in Paris, has created a wonderful umbrella called the Oombrella. This umbrella not only warns you about the rain but also delivers a notification, in case you forget the umbrella somewhere. Oombrella’s hyper-local weather data and the tracking facility that keeps you …
Our love affair with crazy Japanese umbrellas continues with the aptly named ‘Vegetabrella’ by H Concept. The odd looking brolly deftly mimics those green lettuce specimens one would come across in the supermarkets. This nature-inspired replication ‘comes to life’ only when the umbrella is folded. In fact, the wrinkled fabric …
We have had our share of umbrellas that light up and even umbrellas that play their music. But the realm of quirkiness has yet again thrown a curved ball, and as a result we have stumbled across the Cumulus Parasol, a parasol that wondrously transforms into your personalized shading cloud. …
Over the past few days, we have been bombarded with various kinds of ingeniously crafted Japanese ‘Gasas‘. However this time around, technology takes precedence over mere practicality to result in the ‘Anywhere’, a remarkable umbrella design with its very own sound system. The brainchild of artist Dmitry Morozov, the project …
The Japanese surely have their ingenious ways of coming up with innovative umbrella contrivances, be it the illuminating umbrella or the double shaded umbrella. This time around the trend is manifested by Thanko’s Hands-free Shushuku-gasa (Shrinkable Umbrella in Japanese). As the name clearly suggests, the umbrella can be conveniently used …
The Japanese have struck back, this time with the utterly wacky and yet potentially practical ‘two-in-one’ umbrella. Christened as the Niko-Ichi-Gasa, the ultimate umbrella combo sort of fuses two different specimens into a single contrivance. The end result is a very big umbrella that will surely cover your date during …
