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windswept umbrella in formation when it is open
hold a button on the handle and the umbrella becomes your personal dark cloud raining on you wherever you go and whenever you choose
how it works
a water resivoir that you can fill up is hidden on in the material of the thing. so each triangle is
a liquid bladder.
also thought about some way to condense water from the atmosphere automatically but not sure how to make that work
please excuse no caps and run on sentences
first post from my weak phone
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This I don't get. So, I'm in a down. I'm not particularly
interested in telling everyone that - what's the point? Nor do
I want to be wet. |
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Giving your environment a little bit of advance warning about your mood may prevent injury, and might get you some help or at least empathy and a laugh. I'm unlikely to use this, but I think I get the sentiment. |
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Could come with a fan and some small motorized actuators that simulate the umbrella's flipping over from a gust of wind. |
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[+] could be a statue holding an umbrella over a portion of the sidewalk: on rainy days it's a dry spot, on hot days a cooling mist drops from the inside. Good idea with or without depression. |
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//Giving your environment a little bit of advance warning
about your mood may prevent injury, and might get you
some help or at least empathy and a laugh// |
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My environment needs no warning - depressives are
miserable buggers but not aggressive (in fact, they are
generally not readily identified by any outward act). And I
might want empathy if my cat has died, but not if I'm in a
trough; all I want is a hole to hide in where I don't have to
move. |
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But anyway, this was meant as a fun idea and I'm just being
a curmudgeonly sod. |
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in order to cheer yourself up, lend the umbrella to somebody. |
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//Nor do I want to be wet// |
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Alternate version: a hat atop which a dark cloud floats, complete with rain simulating streamers. A small flash unit in the cloud simulates a storm. |
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I have seen a performing artist use a similar device; an ordinary umbrella, with its shaft a tube, the handle end attached to a pressurised water tank carried on their person, and the spike end mounted with a watering can rose or spray nozzle. As they perambulated the venue, they were surrounded by fine drizzle, but it was above their umbrella i.e. they kept dry. It was astonishingly effective. |
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While I don't agree with the stated purpose, since it would just
put everyone who uses it on suicide watch, and give ammo to
loser teens who think every breakup is a crisis and want
everyone to feel sorry for them, this would be a great thing to
have in the summer. I can't think of a much better way to stay
cool and clean at the same time! Now, some constructive
criticism: |
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The weight is going to be a big pain. I suggest an alternative that
will minimize the weight and make it easier to carry. My
suggestion would be to have the water in a backpack, like a
CamelBak, and pressurized to feed through a hose up through
the handle, where it is sprayed from a nozzle at the top. |
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I get the depressive bit but I don't see the manic part of it, unless I can use it to spray everyone else around me. |
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