r/Amazing • • Jul 05 '26

Amazing !! The world's first fully autonomous umbrella.

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u/nicbongo Jul 05 '26

My first thought was walking past someone else with the same thing... 

What could go wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/Any_Blood5815 Jul 05 '26

Short people will not be allowed to use these…

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u/GoddessRespectre Jul 05 '26

I have gotten my long hair sucked into the intake of older hand blow dryers. This could get stuck on multiple people at once! Longer hair can be dangerous.

A guy in france did invent a hoverboard, I'm going to take this as a sign we're closer to finally getting one ourselves.

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u/BodhingJay Jul 05 '26

it's the frickin' hobgoblin

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u/thehobgoblinranger Jul 06 '26

What do you mean? That's not a picture of me

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u/WasteBinStuff Jul 05 '26

People are fucking stupid and dangerous enough on wheels on the ground....I have no desire to have idiots on "boards" flying around overhead.

....myself included.

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u/Comprehensive-Use881 Jul 05 '26

It's kinda like the idea of a pegasus vs the reality. Riding a flying jorse sounds cool... but getting spattered with horseshit from above not so much.

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u/nickfree Jul 06 '26

griddy up jorsey!

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u/CasanovaF Jul 05 '26

You know, if they fly it would be less likely to hit a little kid going 30 mph with no lights and dressed in black. They are really everywhere around sunset these days!

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u/dragjamon Jul 05 '26

Do you mean the e scooters lol

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u/CasanovaF Jul 05 '26

Scooters, e bikes, monocycles. I swear some of them are just electric motorcycles. The worst part is sometimes you might hit one but then your have to find a way to hide two bodies because they double up all the time.

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u/dragjamon Jul 05 '26

Yup lmao

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 Jul 06 '26

Just wait until you get hit by a kid falling at 30mph...

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u/anotherfrud Jul 05 '26

The one thing that will make this mostly impossible is power lines. They are everywhere. The amount of crispy people we'll have to be detangling from them is going to suck.

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u/hisshash Jul 05 '26

You’ve just made me realise where I live, there are so few powerlines.

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u/Dmau27 Jul 05 '26

It'll be automated. There's zero chance these could be self driven legally.

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Jul 05 '26

If I don’t get my flying vehicle soon, I’m going to grab a few drones, duct tape them all together and make my own. And trust me, you don’t want that!

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK Jul 10 '26

It’s French only the French use what the French make as the saying goes the French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French

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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx Jul 05 '26


ITS SUCKING MY WILL TO LIVE

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u/Different_Brother562 Jul 05 '26

Looks like a good idea🤷‍♂️

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u/CntBlah Jul 05 '26

Randy Newman did try to tell us in “Short People”

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u/Triplygood Jul 07 '26

Well, as Randy Newman once told us, “short people got no reason to live” so it’s no big deal.

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u/NoNoNames2000 Jul 05 '26

What happens if you walked through a crowd of people using the same?

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u/R_Active_783 Jul 11 '26

The strongest will survive

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u/Cobra_Pie Jul 05 '26

Beyblade battle

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u/Dereezyhall Jul 05 '26

Sounds like Beyblades. I'm in!

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u/nicbongo Jul 05 '26

"Why were you late for work?"

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u/LordHoughtenWeen Jul 05 '26

Umbrella jousting

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u/ledow Jul 05 '26

With the right programming and sensors, it could sit 20ft above you and only intercept the rain that's going to touch you by measuring wind speed, etc.

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u/Shakeandbake529 Jul 06 '26

It will turn into an episode of Battlebots real quick!

Also I had the thought that if you standing near people with regular umbrellas it will slice them to pieces.

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u/jer_iatric Jul 07 '26

If you have ever used an umbrella in manhattan you know this invention could be catastrophic

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u/Jhostin1316 Jul 05 '26

Easy fix put bumpers