The UV coated, solar collecting fabric of the Numbrella is insulated on the underside and powers a small, sound proof compressor. As the refrigerant expands up the handle and through the hollow underside louvers...brackets...struts? I don't know what they’re called, the bendy thingies.

Anyway the heat is released up a hollow insulated tube running up the inside of the refrigerant release handle to upper louvers.

The cold underside coupled with shade makes anyone beneath the Numbrella totally cool.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 26 2008

Parts of an umbrella http://www.umbrella.../parts-umbrella.htm
[Klaatu, May 27 2008]

So, basically, this is based on the principal of radiant coldth?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 26 2008


Numbrella? I was expecting an umbrella with a calculator built in. Instead, you're promoting something designed to freeze the brass off a bald monkey. I demand a refund! A recount! A recourse! Aw, forget it.

Shouldn't the last line read //makes anyone beneath the Numbrella comfortably numb//?
-- Canuck, May 27 2008


// the bendy thingies //

Lawyers ? Or are they the twisty thingies ?
-- 8th of 7, May 27 2008


I was expecting to be offered a cup of tea...
-- wagster, May 27 2008


It's a small solar-powered fridge for your hands, where, the power-source also provides shade?
-- pertinax, May 27 2008


I figured that the coldth would radiate down from the underside...stretchers?
<I never would have guessed that they were called stretchers>, and somewhat from the...tube, but the handle would be insulated or removable to convert it to a beach umbrella.

Comfortably numb wouldn't be a bad slogan.

Don't get me started on lawyers. I'm sure they're fine folks at heart, but when you've just had an IP lawyer ding you almost a grand for a disclosure agreement, (replete with type-o's) that you could have downloaded for free off the net plus time spent emailing, you just...well you just want your fins back.
Bloody sharks.

[wagster] if you are ever in the neighborhood you are cordially invited for a cup of tea.
Don't get a swelled head now though, that offer stands for anyone on this site...B.Y.O.dogsled.

[pertinax] has it, just not for your hands. Ad a little mister and you've got your own little oasis.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 27 2008


+ Keep my tea on ice for summer with the numbrella, would ya?
-- xandram, May 28 2008


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-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 28 2008


Do you think adding a little mister will make it more appealing to po?
-- Canuck, May 28 2008


a little mister - hmmm? [fans face]
-- po, May 28 2008


I thought it was gonna be an umbrella you could eat.

Or one that injected the user with lidocaine.
-- daseva, May 28 2008



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