Shake Your Umbrella for a Random Song

thhamm writes "If you happen to see people wildly shaking and dancing with their white umbrellas in the street, don't call them crazy just yet. They might just be controlling their iPod with an iBrella: "The iBrella is a special umbrella that acts as an iPod interface. One can control the iPod just by his physical interactions with the iBrella." Theres a video of it in action, too. The ideal gadget to use while driving your motorized couch maybe?"

Comments

pledge

[MrSquirrel]

I pledge allegiance to the united "gahhhh, stop hurting my brain by being so stupid" foundation, that if I ever see someone with one of these I will take it from them, insert it into their... dirty orifice, and open the umbrella.
It's one thing to invent a neat tech gadget or even a bizarre tech gadget with no real purpose... but an iPod-brella is niether neat nor bizarre... they've come out with so many stupid iPod accessories that this is just another piece of crap. Worse than Segway-polo!

Re:pledge

[Stanza]

I want to rant too.

So what if someone thinks it's cool to shake thier umbrella to control an ipod? If they aren't bothering you, let them! There are wars, there are assholes, there are a million things out there that bother me, why does the concept of someone shaking an umbrella bother you all? You don't have to buy one! It's not for sale if you wanted to! Let the crazies play with thier umbrellas and bad mouth something that's actually bad!

Sheesh. It's like when an article is posted about running linux on an alarm clock and everyone says "that's stupid, what's the point?" Don't you guys have better things to do than to bad mouth other people's wierd projects?

Nothing to see here... move along.

[Mikachu]

It's just another silly ipod accessory. As much as I love my ipod nano, I wouldn't be caught dead with an umbrella with which to control it. Can we just quit the stupid accessories already and put that energy into improving battery life or something? Jeez.

Too bad about the weather though

[Recovering Hater]

because I don't think anyone is going to have enough rain to actually use this thing. At least here in the states.

Re:One caveat

[Gothic_Walrus]

It could be worse.

What if the only song it played was "It's Raining Men?"

don't rain on their parade!

[roman_mir]

What would you say if this umbrela was also a solar battery? Of-course it would work better if the umbrella was used against the sun, the in the rain, but its area is big enough to make an iPod run even in stormy weather. Now, why would you want umbrella to play music at all, that's a totally different category of a story.