Video: Polite Umbrella Contracts To Avoid Poking Others In The Eye

Video Link. This This cleverly-designed umbrella allows you shrink to fit the sidewalk.. (Thanks, Stephen Lenz)

1. [RedShirt77]

   Every time you pull the string I be a cup of water lands on your shoe.

   Rain jacket works better.

2. [Anonymous]

   it’s a clever idea, but the only people who would have the presence of mind to pull on the cords and actually use the advantages of the umbrella are the same ppl that are watching enough to avoid hitting ppl to begin with. it’s something cool, but it doesn’t really solve a problem.

3. [stabby13]

   I wish everyone in Tokyo had one of these. Being just over 6ft tall puts a very high percentage of umbrella tips at my eye level there.

4. [muteboy]

   Golf Umbrellas – the SUVs of the sidewalk

5. [hku]

   My rude umbrella
   lashes out while passersby
   cower in terror!

6. [Guy]

   Needs an automatic, proximity-sensing mechanism.

   also, I have never seen an umbrella that big, that wasn’t deck furniture.

7. [kaka]

   also, I have never seen an umbrella that big, that wasn’t deck furniture. BE degree

8. [kaka]

   also, I have never seen an umbrella that big, that wasn’t deck furniture.
   college degrees

9. [kaka]

   string I be a cup of water lands on your shoe.

   Rain jacket works better. Multimedia degree

10. [kaka]

    Golf Umbrellas – the SUVs of the sidewalk
    PhD finance

11. [kaka]

    Every time you pull the string I be a cup of water lands on your shoe. Administration degree