Just jumping in the forum to present you with the future of commuter technology: http://www.nubrella.com/index.php
I smirked at the price tag, then literally laughed out loud after seeing the image of a woman inside a space suit of an umbrella.
But remembering how the Chicago windtunnels downtown shredded my umbrella the moment I opened it, I can see some merit to this.
(although I’m still unwilling to pay 60 bucks for one, not just yet)
It’s probably very effective. As the creator of the unchovie, I probably would have called it the “unbrella”.
But most importantly, I think in the end there are social implications to the widespread adoption of this device. Gone would be the chance meeting of your soulmate in a rainstorm after you’ve invited someone or been invited by someone to share an umbrella. Can two people get under one of those things?
Or then again does this really sound right?
“It’s a big enough nubrella, but it’s always me that ends up getting wet.”
Oh my! Look at this image from the web site:
I don’t think they’ve thought that plan all the way through. I don’t want to see someone riding a bicycle with that over their head. Does the Nubrella act as a substitute helmet?
Who would actually wear that thing? Put that on and everyone is going to make fun of you.
Haha. Talk about wind resistance…
Hey that could be tied to one of those treadmill bikes that are probably heavy enough to sink, so you could ride it under water and breath with all that air trapped in the scubabrella. We could invade Canada with a sinktilla of scubtreadmillmobiles and capture all their beer.
Wow, only $59.99 and it doesn’t really fold up! At least I’m assuming why I couldn’t find any pictures on their site of the thing in the closed position. Umbrellas are cool because they fold up really small.
Okay, I found the pictures. It folds up into about the size of a bow and arrow. 
But I can see a small market for something like that in places where you get lots of nasty wind with your rain, like downtown Chicago for example. Still, you have to have a place to stick it when you get where you’re going…
hahaha it looks like hes affected by some disese and hes his own little dome to stop it spreading:p or he’s an ecofreak person whose scared of our rising emitions and co2 (sorry to any one like this) it doesnt look very practical and the price is stupid, 59.99 or whatever to look like an idiot (sorry to any one who has one, no really i feel sorry for you lol)
edit- why is in the picture is he wearing it in the perfect sunshine?? thus enforcing what i just said:D
Hmm, I’d bet it’d get pretty steamed up inside if it were tested in the rain with an actual cyclist instead of someone posing for a picture, riding casually in business suit.
I’ll just point out to you scott that that is only £30 for us… (essentially…)
I too do not know if I would pay that sort of money to go round looking like a spaceman with an oversized helmet, but some may say that us on unis look a bit weird… you’d get used to it. If it’s essential that someone uses one, then fine - but otherwise I’m sticking to a normal umbrella.
here ya go:
Haha! Good luck getting through airport security with one of those things!
If they made it out of some space age sound proofing material it could be used as a cell phone privacy shield. The user would walk around with the shield folded down, like a convertible with the top down. When they start talking on their mobile phone the shield automatically raises and allows the user to talk on their mobile phone in privacy. Not that mobile phone users are ever concerned that their conversations are rude and impolite in many public locations… but the product would be there for the few who understand that other people around them don’t want to hear them gabbing away.
It’s not a rain shield, it’s a talking shield.
it might be £30 over here but a normal umbrella is like £5 at most.
Why not just get a full face helmet???
But that does look somewhat cool. 
Their site says it is the first truly hands free umbrella. NOT TRUE; of course the Nubrella doesn’t give you hat hair.
I think I’ll stick with my hats, hooded jackets, or traditional umbrellas.
If they really want to market that they need to get Rihanna to change her lyrics:
Now that it’s raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my Nubrella
You can stand under my Nubrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my Nubrella
(ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my Nubrella
(ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my Nubrella
(ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
I’d rather wear Nutella than a Nubrella.