Nubrella – The Hands-Free Umbrella
By Luke Anderson
How many of you carry an umbrella when it’s raining? Unless I know that I’ll be walking for long distances in the pouring rain, I won’t bother. I figure that I’ll spend more time standing in the rain closing the umbrella and trying to put it in the car than I’ll actually spend outside. If you have a thing about getting wet, you might want to check out the very interesting Nubrella.
The idea here s that you can have an umbrella that doesn’t require any hands, because lets face it, you don’t always have one. The other benefit is that your head is blocked from the elements on all sides. On the downside you look like you’re being eaten by a transparent Pac-Man. If you don’t mind the strange looks you’ll get, you can pick one up for $60.
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Comments [9]
Anyone who buys one of these deserves to get beat up.
Posted 8:57 am on February 21st, 2008It looks cozy actually.
Posted 9:30 pm on February 21st, 2008LOL psyco umbrella LOL
Posted 12:15 am on February 22nd, 2008….your bottom half would get soaked from the runoff
Posted 5:09 am on February 22nd, 2008What were they thinking?
Posted 11:33 pm on February 22nd, 2008Reply to LuFFy D: what were they thinking!!! $$$$$$$$$$
Posted 1:59 pm on February 24th, 2008thats what!
mmm…Nutella.
Posted 5:11 pm on February 25th, 2008well, if you look at the history of umbrella, they had almost the same sarcastical comments when the very first people came out on the rain with “a strange stick in hand”
Jonas Hanway, the founder of the Magdalen Hospital, has the credit of being the first man who ventured to dare public reproach and ridicule by carrying one habitually in London. As he died in 1786, and he is said to have carried an umbrella for thirty years, the date of its first use by him may be set down at about 1750. John Macdonald relates that in 1770, he used to be greeted with the shout, “Frenchman, Frenchman! why don’t you call a coach?” whenever he went out with his umbrella.
read all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella
Posted 1:33 pm on February 26th, 2008Increased risk of hypodisplastikia & brain cancer due to higher levels of CO2 buildup present within canopy… suggested uses reserved for republicans wishing to call attention to George Bush’s bubble theory regarding the Texas Jack-o-rabbit’s free range energy project [very hush hush]… end of transmission AtomicZ…
Posted 5:46 pm on February 27th, 2008