People certainly haven't been afraid to try and reinvent the umbrella over the years. There was the solar-powered Booster Brolly, the windproof Rainshader and the lopsided Rain Shield, just to name a ...

The Internet was abuzz yesterday with news of the Kickstarter campaign to create a bizarre “air umbrella,” a gadget that promises to ward raindrops away from your face by powerfully blowing out air in ...

Shelter from the rain just got high-tech and invisible. A research and development team from China has come up with a battery-operated Air Umbrella, which creates a shield against rainfall via a jet ...

Umbrellas are the worst, and not just because Rihanna sang a song about them that made turned a three-syllable word into a seven-syllable one. They turn inside out, they track water into your home, ...

We are all familiar with the force fields that are used in science fiction movies. Most often, they are used to deflect bullets, keep proton torpedoes at bay, and generally ward off alien invaders.

In the history of pointless devices, the air umbrella has to be among one of the foremost – and it could soon be a reality. According to Core77, the invisible umbrella concept – which uses forced air ...

Umbrellas are a necessary evil. They're awesome because they keep us 80% dry when the sky cries, but they suck because you have to hold them, they can't compete with strong gusts of wind, and they ...