Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Beat the rain blues with brolly vision

Rainy days will never seem as dull again thanks to a new internet umbrella.

The high-tech brolly allows you to take pictures with a built-in camera. These can be uploaded to Flickr (a photo-sharing website) via a wireless internet connection and within two minutes you can watch downloaded photo-streams on your umbrella screen with a simple wrist-snapping movement.

Pileus umbrella

Invented in Tokyo, the Pileus umbrella also has GPS and a digital compass, which uses Google Earth to help you navigate yourself around the world. They are working on incorporating a video camera as well.

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