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As you struggle home on a frightfully cold, rainy evening, the dreaded
Boston wind flips your umbrella inside out. Normally this would mean
getting soaked as you desperately attempt to correct the inverted
joints. But not this time.
Good thing you brought your stylish Double Umbrella. One quick
flip
and you’re enjoying reversible rain blockage.
Now in dual colors!
Illustration
http://www.sundialt.../doubleumbrella.png
[calculust, May 08 2009]
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Now there's a design with robust redundancy. |
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perfect for hooking things/people too! |
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A great idea but didn't some person suggest it in
an annotation on the Doublebrella thread? |
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It's good, but somehow I feel that I've seen somewhere
already? |
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might make for some nice special effects in a thunderstorm, too. |
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Like it. When something embarrassing like that happens, there are always other people around to see it. Now you can coolly flip it over and take it in your stride. It's almost like saying, 'that was meant to happen'. |
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good idea, but, not to be a downer, in practice
the wind bends the struts to some pretty unique
shapes. |
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Kind of like balloon animals? |
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well yes, OK + and then one can use the other handle for getting things down off the top shelves... |
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Also useful for preventing pigeons from landing on top of your umbrella. Although I must agree with loonquawl - could be a bit dangerous in a thunderstorm. |
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why not just make the top of the umbrella flat ? there seems no real reason for it to be curved. Then the wind would have less of a parachute effect. |
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Or make the umbrella in 2 or 3 overlapping rings, like a mini pagoda, so if the wind blows up from underneath... there is an escape route, and it would be less likely to turn inside out |
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Great idea. Maybe a little hard to store, a bit long, but redundancy == bun. |
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