Now this is an umbrella to carry on a dark night. I don't know whether to point out that is is heavily influenced by the movie Blade Runner or call it a Light Saber Umbrella, but the cool LED glow just works for me. The umbrella is 32.5 inches long and has a 41" opened diameter. You can find it at ThinkGeek.
A Better Umbrella
In the US, so many umbrella-related patents are being filed that the U.S. Patent Office employs four full-time examiners to assess them. As of 2008, the office registered three thousand active patents on umbrella-related inventions. Nonetheless, Totes, the largest American umbrella producer, has stopped accepting unsolicited proposals. Its director of umbrella development was reported as saying that while umbrellas are so ordinary that everyone thinks about them, "it’s difficult to come up with an umbrella idea that hasn’t already been done."
source:wikipedia
