Lighting your way in the rain

Damian Koh | Dec 18, 2008

(Credit: Yanko Design)

There are countless umbrella inventions that aim to make your walk in the rain a little more bearable. From listening to music to catching a movie on the underside of your brollie to Korean designer Sang-Kyun Park's LightDrops creation that lights your way in the rain.

According to the writeup, the outside canopy that has a conductive membrane called PDVF. As rain hits it, the impact generates electrical energy that powers built-in LEDs on the umbrella. The harder the rain hits the brollie, the brighter the light. Now that's literally a brilliant idea, but the lights better be waterproofed, otherwise you'll end up as an electrifying light show.

Via Yanko Design

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