Three characteristics of a telescopic umbrella are “small” , “light weight” and “easy to break”. I have been wasting many umbrellas yet because it needs just a short gust of wind to break a telescopic umbrella. But why is this product so easy to break? I would like to have an unbreakable telescopic umbrella.
The two risky parts of the umbrella are the covering and the skeleton itself. I think that it cannot be that big problem to optimize these parts.
My ideas are first to use a very good thread to attach the covering on the skeleton. The skeleton is usually made of thin metal parts which can be deformed easily. I would design the skeleton with elastic carbon fiber material as it is used in for sunglasses.
But there are also people thinking about what to do with a broken umbrella. You could make any artwork out of it (see ARTREPAIRSHOP). Another idea is to create a kite of the the broken umbrella (see andrewmaize).
And you could also create a backpack (see materialundtechnologie)
…any other ideas?
IDEAS 2015 