Jan 28 2009Light Saber Umbrellas: Battle Sith Lords, Women And Wetness At The Same Time
These $40 Light Saber Umbrellas are the first to combine the coolness of staying dry when it's raining with the incredible sadness of wielding a nonfunctional lightsaber out in public. That said, I take mine everywhere. Wow, is it just me or is it raining lady-killer in here?*
*It's just me. Come get some, beautiful.
Hit the jump for several more pictures of the awesome. Also, when rain hits a lightsaber does it crackle and pop like a bug-zapper? That's what I imagine.
UPDATE: Bladerunner Umbrellas, not Star Wars. What, can you blame a guy for drinking?
Light Saber Umbrella - LED and rain protector together at last [redferret]
Thanks to Alexander, who doesn't need an LED flashlight to light up the night -- he glows because he was exposed to radiation as a child.
Reader Comments
1. Big City - January 28, 2009 1:55 PM
First.
2. gizmoduck - January 28, 2009 1:57 PM
where is the green one?
3. bass - January 28, 2009 1:57 PM
that is fantastic
id kill for one
4. Mr. Man - January 28, 2009 1:57 PM
@2 GW smoked it
5. naas - January 28, 2009 1:58 PM
Not for $40...
6. gooch - January 28, 2009 2:01 PM
This thing will likely battle ladies "wetness" as much as precipitation. Nothing dries up a chick faster than a lightsaber of any kind. Lightsabers, empty wallets, and riding a bus during a date.
7. Milkman - January 28, 2009 2:09 PM
I'm so torn here. The nerd in me thinks, cool. The guy in me who likes getting laid says.. "I like getting laid, how about.. no?". Decisions, decisions
8. marge - January 28, 2009 2:11 PM
kinda dorky... still useful on dark nights, no?
9. Thumperchica - January 28, 2009 2:12 PM
6&7, You are both correct.
10. naas - January 28, 2009 2:13 PM
@7 'The guy in me who likes getting laid says "I like getting laid...." sounds a little gay for a milkman. Good thing you didn't say that out loud.
11. Geeky - January 28, 2009 2:14 PM
Actually this is from the movie Blade Runner... http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/9260/
12. Rod - January 28, 2009 2:15 PM
6&7-
You're dating the wrong kind of girl.
9-
You're the wrong kind of girl.
13. GizmoSausage - January 28, 2009 2:15 PM
They better not snap during a strong gust.
This could actually help you light up your way in a dark alley way, for instance. This is a very clever idea.
What about that red double-edged thingy that the red ugly bald dude was using? That would be really awesome to have a up and bottom umbrella. SWEEEEET. And then you can pretend to be a douched-out Merry Poppins that looks like she's lost and ended up babysitting a ghetto baby in the ghetto.
14. FRX - January 28, 2009 2:24 PM
Geekologie writer FAIL
15. Sub-Zero - January 28, 2009 2:27 PM
Oh you'll be battling women and wetness at the same time, that's for sure
16. Thumperchica - January 28, 2009 2:29 PM
12- You have No idea ;-)
6 is right about the broke, riding a bus to a date, but somehow having the cash to buy a $40 lightsaber umbrelly...
7 is right to be in a dillema...
17. Timbo - January 28, 2009 2:34 PM
Put a flashlight on an unmbrella, call it a lightsaber and mark up the price 150%
18. BZKlint - January 28, 2009 2:35 PM
How Geekologie comments usually go...
1.
first!!!
2.
FIRST!?!
3.
@ 2
lol FAIL!
4.
FAKE!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell it's fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This looks exactly like that scene in Never Back Down where I was anally raped Max... And I enjoyed it.
5.
@ 4
STFU!
6 and so on.
I just came., I want one!, gay!!!, i hate black people!!!11!!, etc...
19. BZKlint - January 28, 2009 2:35 PM
by Max*
20. Jamesongrrl - January 28, 2009 2:36 PM
With #11.
Lightsaber- no. Blade Runner- yes.
21. kristin - January 28, 2009 2:51 PM
@12
you're absolutely right.
I'm a girl and I'd love one of these
22. finfan - January 28, 2009 2:53 PM
@18
It's like you can see right through us...
23. gizmoduck - January 28, 2009 2:55 PM
i failed?
dang
back to the work then
24. Annearchist - January 28, 2009 2:55 PM
I absolutely LOVE my Blade Runner umbrella, and I'm a girl.
Not only is it incredibly cool looking, but it's much more convenient than trying to juggle an umbrella, flashlight, and dog leash while walking the dog on dark rainy nights.
25. catch22 - January 28, 2009 3:14 PM
the lighting would probly annoy me in the dark trying to see past it or something...unless you hold the umbrella behind your peripheral vision ironically enough, the extra light would make seeing a bit more difficult....
......besides youd still get wet swinging it around
26. Daisy (TRO) - January 28, 2009 3:38 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was a chimney sweep and baja was working as an au pair for an english couple. They hung out and did shrooms together one afternoon, and imagined that the pictures the kids drew on the sidewalk came to life.
27. Scarlet - January 28, 2009 5:14 PM
Totally Sexy! Any guy who has one of these wil deffinatly get any girl.
28. driveshaft - January 28, 2009 5:19 PM
wow... after seeing blade runner for the first time. Ive just been waiting for them to make those goddam umbrellas! THE TIME HAS COME! LET IT RAIIIIIIIIIN!!!
29. Into it - January 28, 2009 7:08 PM
I've found that If you're not an ASSHAT women like the quirky things about a guy, makes him more interesting. I guess if you think you can buy "cool", chicks just won't dig you... They'll dig your loose wallet.
I've been waiting for a Blade Runner umbrella FOREVER! Now where's my trip to the Outer Worlds, where i can begin my new life on an off-world colony?
30. Spikey DaPikey - January 28, 2009 7:34 PM
Good for unlit country roads at night. Like it :)
31. Pepper - January 28, 2009 8:35 PM
i NEED one of these things?
who will buy one for me?
*makes a cute pouty face*
32. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 28, 2009 10:06 PM
Okay, as a 6'5" guy in Japan, I have to say this is a bad idea. Those things (umbrellas) present an eye-poking hazard as it is, you don't need an incentive to swing them around too!!!
33. mike - January 28, 2009 11:21 PM
Nothing new here. Blader Runner, a movie from the eighties, shows umbrelas just like these.
34. sheigh zam - January 29, 2009 2:02 AM
#12 you are right.
I am buying this for my man ASAP, and I have never seen Star Wars (yes you read that right) but he is OBSESSED. He is better equipt to deal with...wetness... when he's happy, and this will make him (and, thus, me) happy.
And #26, it's NOT a fake, I found 2 places that have these already, although one seller's site is entirely in Japanese and costs 34,00 yen. Think I'll opt for the $19.99 guy in California. At least I can rest assured that I will actually receive said item, and not, say, a light saber vibrator.
35. K4ot1K - January 29, 2009 5:05 AM
@8 It won't work, his armor is light saber proof.
36. Rick Deckard - January 29, 2009 6:44 AM
'Light Saber'!
Geekologie has just lost what tenuous credibility it had for me by not knowing this to be from Bladerunner...
37. seni - January 29, 2009 8:07 AM
definitely BLADE RUNNER!
38. Thumperchica - January 29, 2009 8:58 AM
32 - HAHAHA hords of little japanese women will be stabbing you in the chin/ear/eye with their lightsaber umbrellas. I'm sorry... but I'm still laughing...
39. WallCat - January 29, 2009 9:46 AM
if i saw a guy with one of those, i'd definitely be interested.
40. Decker - January 29, 2009 12:36 PM
#33 & #37 are right, this is straight out of Blade Runner. Shame on the poster for trying to make it some lame Star Wars fanboy idea.
*slaps wrist & wags finger*
41. Carlos Alexandre Monteiro - January 31, 2009 4:22 AM
Perfect gear for a first - and rainy - date. NOT! ;)
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want to know the prices of 3 color of led umbrella
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