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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?"
This is old. This was invented by Mary Poppins years ago.
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From the pic, you can tell that it was powered by linux.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
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.
Whether or not one is controlling their iPod while doing this, I still believe they can be safely categorized as "fucking nuts."
So now it's bad luck to listen to your iPod indoors, is it?
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
I hear this product works very well, but unfortunately it currently only plays "Singing in the Rain."
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.
because I don't think anyone is going to have enough rain to actually use this thing. At least here in the states.
My humor is probably your flamebait
and the next game is Dance Dance Umbrella Revolution.
Forget Heath Ledger as the Joker. It's going be the Penguin blasting William Hung songs out of his umbrella all the way.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Thank you, baby Jesus!
Yeah, yeah... I like to drive my car from the back seat using rope, duct tape and a broomstick.
Next comes the steering wheel iPod interface! The next time you see someone swerving over the road, they're not drunk, they're just changing songs!
IT'S NOT AN ACCESSORY FOR SALE, IT'S AN ART PROJECT
Am I the only person who understood this right away? Please cut the end off the url and visit the main page for more info, here I'll make it easy:
sheesh!
do not lose all faith.... someone saw you as Insightful
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
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.
You can't handle the truth.
Dance Dance Immolation is "Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed at you." (See the DDI URL for a picture by Kristen Ankiewicz.) I saw it at The Crucible's recent Fire Arts Exhibition. You don't get flamed every time you miss - it's more like every N times or so, and might depend on whether you or the other person you're playing against is ahead. (Oh, and you do get to wear a fireproof suit...)
Bill Stewart
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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?