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 is old. This was invented by Mary Poppins years ago.

http://clubdi.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/mar ypcover.jpg [typepad.com]

From the pic, you can tell that it was powered by linux.

Still crazy

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."

Re:Still crazy

Whether or not one is controlling their iPod while doing this, I still believe they can be safely categorized as "fucking nuts."

This moniker will still apply regardless of whether or not they're wearing a bluetooth earpiece, shouting to nobody in particula

great...

So now it's bad luck to listen to your iPod indoors, is it?

One caveat

I hear this product works very well, but unfortunately it currently only plays "Singing in the Rain."

Re:One caveat

It could be worse.

What if the only song it played was "It's Raining Men?"

Nothing to see here... move along.

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.

Re:Nothing to see here... move along.

It's not like Apple's making this thing. And there's only so many speaker/docks that these 3rd party manufacturers can make before they go a bit nutty and come up with concepts like this.

don't rain on their parade!

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

Too bad about the weather though

because I don't think anyone is going to have enough rain to actually use this thing. At least here in the states.

Re:Too bad about the weather though

Looks like the website owner is from Denmark, which according to wikipedia [wikipedia.org] has 170 days of rain per year.

I called it first...

and the next game is Dance Dance Umbrella Revolution.

Re:I called it first...

Rain Rain Revolution?

Re:I called it first...

According to our weather forecast, it already happened.

Re:I called it first...

I think Phil Collins might have beat you to it.

Take it to Dance Dance Immolation at Burning Man

Dance Dance Immolation [interpretivearson.com] 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 [thecrucible.org]'s recent Fire Arts Exhibition. You don't get flamed every time you miss - it's more lik

Let me get this straight.

You have to turn around to adjust volume. How in the heck is that useful? "Oops, sorry hun, my music is too loud, looks like I'm going to have to turn around and go back to work."

Re:Let me get this straight.

Doh, scratch that. Looks like you can just rotate the umbrella itself. Still, I wonder how many people are going to forget that important fact while using it :)

I see another Batman movie coming on. Waaaa!

Forget Heath Ledger as the Joker. It's going be the Penguin blasting William Hung songs out of his umbrella all the way.

At last! Someone fixed the iPod's interface!

Thank you, baby Jesus!

Yeah, yeah... I like to drive my car from the back seat using rope, duct tape and a broomstick.

Let's be serious here

I can see a lot of the accessoires for the iPod being useful. Belt clips, other ear plugs, uh... did we have Belt clips already?

But an umbrella? Let's be serious here, there's only so much you can milk out of an iPod enthusiast, no matter how much he loves

Re:Huh?

You've obviously never lived in Wales or Scotland ;)

Re:pledge

I'll reply to you because you're near the top, but holy fuck people!

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:

proto-typen.org is a small group of students from the University Karlsruhe and from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.

Having been introduced to the creative and hands-on way of using mikrocontrollers and elektronics in the Seminar Showoff devices" led by Hannes Nehls and Matt Karau, many students wished to continue experimenting and designing artwork in the future.

Several objects from the seminar have been or are being displayed at the HfG, many other expositions are planned FOR THE FUTURE.

sheesh!

Re:pledge

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 so

Re:This is unnessicary

do not lose all faith.... someone saw you as Insightful