Ever wish your umbrella could send you reminders to take it with you if it's going to rain that day?
That's the idea behind the oombrella, a internet connected smart umbrella that alerts users with notifications when its going to rain and when they've forgotten it at home.
Created by Paris resident Clément Guillot and his team, the oombrella raised over 81,000 dollars on Indiegogo to fund the product which utilizes a number of features to make its users lives easier, but also provides live weather sharing with the companies app, Wezzoo, a commented-based weather app for iPhone and Android.
According to the products website, the oombrella has three main features beside its main use as a rain umbrella: weather alerts, the Forget Me Not Alert, and weather sharing.
The smart umbrella has several sensors embedded in the base of its handle allowing it to communicate with Bluetooth on smartphones, alerting its user if its ever left behind, like at a restaurant or on the bus.
The sensors also track light, humidity, pressure and temperature all from the base of the umbrellas handle.
These sensors then send information to the Wezzoo app, a social and real-time weather service aimed at giving a voice to users to describe the weather they are experiencing, something Wezzoo says the oombrella will do seamlessly with the use of its Bluetooth chip and weather sensors.
"The oombrella collected real time data such as temperature, pressure, humidity, and light," a Wezzoo spokesman said. "Data is processed and shared with all of the oombrella community, allowing everyone to receive hyper-local alerts."
In other words, a social umbrella.
"We wanted to make this umbrella unforgettable in terms of design," Alexandre of Escabo Design Studio said. "We developed an exclusive material that makes you feel like you are holding the aurora borealis in your hands, it has effects that are amazing in the light and always changing."
The umbrella itself comes in three colors, its rainbow-like shiny color, white, and black and features two distinct styles, classic, which features a curved handle, or the fold-able which features a straight handle.
The product is still in development but its Indiegogo campaign was successful. When the product releases, both versions of the smart umbrella will cost $79.