
You will never be bored ever again when it rains.
There has been a lot of news about this umbrella. Created by 2 young graduate students: Matsumoto Takashi, 27, and Hashimoto Sho, 22, of Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance. They created this umbrella to make it more funner as the rain pours.
The umbrella is called Pileus meaning the head of a mushroom. This umbrella contains a camera, motion sensor, GPS, and a digital compass. It s controlled by rotating the grip of the umbrella. It can browse the photos sharing site Flickr, take pictures and upload them to the internet, can look at other people’s photo streams. Also you can watch videos from Youtube. You will never be lose again thanks to the GPS and the digital compass. The team that created this is will be making further adjustments to it like being able to do many things at once and etc.
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Source: Trends in Japan, Digital World Tokyo






October 21st, 2007 at 1:16 am #oru
wow thats soo cool makes me remmember the light stick umbrellas from years ago.. but thats realy cool i want one !