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The un-brella has a pump and container of water in the handle. On hot, dry days, unfurl your un-brella, flip the switch and enjoy a cooling mist.
Wearable air conditioner
http://www.sharperi...&pcatid=1&catid=114
Note that this one uses the Peltier effect, so, unlike your device, it would still work on humid days when water won't evaporate. Given that the fastest way to heat or cool a person is through their hands, you could incorporate one of these in the handle of your unbrolly. [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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I like it. Combine shading with evaporative cooling. I don't know why people don't use parasols anymore. + |
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reversible in crowd situations - becomes a water cannon |
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Make the unbra part fit around a rifle barrel and ship this to Iraq, pronto. + |
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I thought this would be some organic umbrella produced via bokanovskification that was for either sex or gender. |
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Like it, let's market it, we'll do lunch. |
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Crank up the pump to provide a drenching downpour, and somebody'll think you're a Magritte painting come to life. |
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there's a market here in Singapore, where it's summer all year round..... + |
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//Another benefit, you could shampoo on the way to work//
In the car? |
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The un-brella's a terrible idea in a car anyway. Use the air conditioner. |
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[bliss] If you have your un-brella spraying enough water to wash your hair, you would be soaking wet by the time you got to work. Are you suggesting that there should be a shower curtain so you can walk to work au naturel and then get dressed when you arrive? |
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[LoneR] In Singapore I would recommend that you fill your Un-brella with liquid nitrogen rather than water. It’s so humid in your part of the world that you wouldn’t get much benefit from evaporative cooling, but a spray of LN2 would generate a tremendous white fog, enveloping you in a cloud of refeshosity. |
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what? the soaking wet bit? or the au naturel bit? or both? |
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Use a 1-way mirror shower curtain. |
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(envisions this shiny thing coasting down the sidewalk, emitting water and bubbles from underneath and (bad?) singing) |
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A metallized Mylar shower curtain would do the trick. Then you’d be OK as long as you didn’t get shampoo in your eyes. |
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//Crank up the pump to provide a drenching downpour, and somebody'll think you're a Magritte painting come to life.//
Ceci n'est pas un parapluie. |
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I've seen awnings like this in French sidewalk cafes
and they blew my mind - an umbrella version would
be even better! |
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