Remaining Fashionably Dry on a Rainy, Windy Day: the Inverted Umbrella

If you're online shopping for an umbrella to keep you dry during the next rainy and windy day, consider buying an inverted umbrella. In an interconnected digital world in which we continue to carry more and more expensive, personal electronic devices (tablets, smart phones, headphones, laptops), investing in a strong, intelligently designed, quality umbrella can end up saving you thousands of dollars (maybe more depending on the value of the documents you carry in your briefcase or should bag). 

What's an Inverted Umbrella, and How Does it Work 

The concept of an inverted umbrella is straight forward, ingenious and, with different colors on the inside and outside of the waterproof surface of the umbrella, highly fashionable. Rather than opening up like a conventional umbrella, the inverted umbrella opens upside down. As clearly illustrated on the photo, when sliding the umbrella's lever alongside its bone, the inwards portion of the waterproof material becomes the top outwards surface facing the rain, and the outwards surface becomes the inward dry surface keeping you and your expensive electronic gadgets dry. When closing the umbrella by pulling the lever downwards, the top wet waterproof surface folds itself inwards, with the dry surface of the waterproof material now being on the outside. What are the advantages of an inverted umbrella?

Advantages

Aside from standing out from the crowd with something fashionably different, an obvious advantage of the inverted umbrella is to ensure the wet surface of the umbrella is folded inwards when entering dry areas, like your car, home, or a coffee shop. With the outwards wet surface being folded inwards, the umbrella can be placed on any dry surface area, like your car seat, for instance. Having a dry, outwards folding umbrella may also prove to be more convenient, polite, and courteous in crowded places, especially in urban areas that experience polluted rain falls. 

In geographic areas where strong winds are prominent on rainy days, the invested umbrella design also means strong winds will not exercise a force that goes against the umbrella's natural spring mechanism and frame. As typhoon-strength winds, such as the type experienced in Japan, were a concern in designing the particular inverted umbrella depicted in this post, its users can be sure that his umbrella is as strong as they can get. 

The inverted umbrella displayed in this post is a Japanese designed umbrella, and has a current price tag of $114.99. Its 80 cm fibre glass bone gives this inverted umbrella extra strength and durability. In its fully extended, open position, the inverted umbrella has a diameter of 105 cm, more than sufficient to keep you, your electronic devices, and your toes dry. It is available in 8 different colors: grey, dark blue, light blue, turquoise, pink, black, yellow, and red.