By When you are doing what I do, you tend to be appreciative of high-performance processing, dual-core video cards and whatever sort of screens and all that lot which gets you to forget about low tech stuff.
It’s the world of low tech that brings together some of the more user friendly and cheaper gadgets you can have.
This Clock Umbrella is the just that thing we’re missing right now. You see, in a world of nightvision robots and baldness killing helmets a simple drawn umbrella isn’t that impressive.
Umbrella Clock
The creator of this sun abusing gadget claims he can turn an umbrella into a clock. It all seems very ambitious but it’s actually worth a second glance.
The Umbrella Clock isn’t really an umbrella, if it was, using the sun to tell the time may prove difficult when it’s cloudy because it rains.
The actual ingenuity within this device is only to be spotted once you find out that the umbrella is actually a parasol (something people who don’t want to use sun blocker have). The actual purpose is that it should supply some shade.
While you’re in the shade, if you look up, the various positions of the sun can tell you the time. You know, that is if you think a watch is too much of a high tech thingamajig for you.
Umbrella Clock
Seriously, the idea of an Umbrella Clock isn’t back but it’s what I’d call an eccentric toy rather than a low tech gadget.
Then again, if you need an armored plated iPhone, a watch may prove to fragile for you to handle so you might as well check the price list of the Umbrella Clock.
It even comes with a tiny compass so that’s something to look forward to in terms of low tech gadgets. Something else that’s interesting about this umbrella is that it comes from Japan, a country renown for really high tech stuff.
The designer’s name is Kota Nezu and I guess he took most of is inspiration from Fred Flintstone’s sundial watch.