Mar 9 2009Cloud Umbrella Looked Better As Rendering
The Cloud Umbrella is an umbrella that you blow up when it starts to rain using it's pump-handle. Then it looks like a cloud and all the passers-by get a laugh at the cleverness that is your umbrella. Just kidding. They wonder why you're carrying around bunch of white beach balls on the end of a stick. Also, seven years bad luck if you open it indoors. Speaking of which -- you know why you've had it so hard lately? Yeah, you remember that mirror I broke? Well, I told God you did it.
Cloud Umbrella keeps your head in the sky while you stay dry [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. Elmo - March 9, 2009 3:05 PM
they could have made that waaay better
cheap bastards! btw the rendering looks like the clouds from Yoshi story
2. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 9, 2009 3:06 PM
It did look better as a rendering. This thing looks, well, dumb. It also doesn't look very functional...
3. naas - March 9, 2009 3:11 PM
This umbrella is a functional failure. If you could put a little camera inside & project SMB at 360 degrees then it'd might be something
4. naas - March 9, 2009 3:12 PM
it'd = it
5. Davo - March 9, 2009 3:17 PM
I would rather see one that pours water on you so you can carry it around on a sunny day.
6. Clamdigger - March 9, 2009 3:18 PM
Women you can make a ton of money with this little diddy. Insert, inflate tell every guy you slept with in the last couple of months it's his baby. Cash all those checks and deflate. And if you are not the kind to sleep around...well get to it.
7. Adam - March 9, 2009 3:26 PM
Garb!!!
8. Spikey DaPikey - March 9, 2009 3:28 PM
Lame, lame and uber crap
9. Master Kanga - March 9, 2009 3:44 PM
That's not what I'd be making with my Rubber, Aluminum and Plastic...
Besides, I'd rather have a roll of "Tape Hats" that I could dispense of just as easily as my sunglasses...
10. Megan - March 9, 2009 3:48 PM
Eh, wouldn't the water just run to the bottom of one of the spheres and drip all over you? Agreed. Functional failure.
11. kmath - March 9, 2009 4:10 PM
@10 Exactly what I was thinking, the water would travel to the bottom of each sphere and drip down.
12. Milkman - March 9, 2009 4:53 PM
Lol I bet it doesn't work very well. And in strong wind its probably hard to hold onto
13. Jab - March 9, 2009 6:22 PM
"Just kidding. They wonder why you're carrying around bunch of white beach balls on the end of a stick." Lol :D
Not only is it made poorly, it doesn't make sense. If it were filled with water so that you had a single cloud raining on your parade as you walked down the street, that would make more sense.
14. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 9, 2009 7:00 PM
Good thing this is just a concept, because it fails on so many levels. For now it's one less thing I'd have to beat someone's ass about if seen with one in public.
15. Sporty McDouglas - March 9, 2009 7:00 PM
@10 and 11
This is what I was going to post.
Definitely. The rain will run down the spheres and onto you.
16. R2-D2 - March 9, 2009 7:49 PM
Blop beep! Multi functional bicycle pump! Boop!
17. feckless - March 9, 2009 8:25 PM
I know of only one person who would buy one. Bjork.
18. Michael - March 9, 2009 8:45 PM
This is too good a setup for the old Granny Weatherwax line: "Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things. Well known fact." 'Strue.
19. Daisy - March 9, 2009 11:11 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 threw a lit flare into the hold of an oil tanker. The guy who lived down there was happy that he was finally releived of his torture, as the oil exploded.
20. naas - March 9, 2009 11:30 PM
I think this is a demo for Apple's new iBrella, a swanky feminine & failing makeover for today's umbrella jock
21. Dinosaur Rex - March 10, 2009 12:24 AM
The "umbrella" is also small, besides the water droping, you'll get your back wet
22. Racy Mc Racist - March 10, 2009 7:21 AM
@21 they will be popular in mexico then.
23. Amanda Heironimus - March 10, 2009 9:30 AM
Overly precious idea destroyed by poor execution. But, you know, I'm sure there's someone out there who could work this look. Like one of those creepy harijuku girls. Or a giant cartoon panda.
;)
~a