Nubrella

A friend pointed me at this article, which I was going to blog about anyway. I think the angle of texting while walking is kind of impractical anyway, much less while it's raining and you're under an umbrella. I was thinking that maybe the best application for the handle-less, strapped-on umbrella might be for a bicyclist in the rain.

Then, I reached the end of the article and found that one of the quoted buyers was from Youngstown:

Skye Grapentine of Youngstown, Ohio, bought the Nubrella for her birthday after stumbling across it online. She likes walking, and she likes catching up on reading the newspaper when she walks -- a pleasure that is not possible with an umbrella.

"With an umbrella, you're busy gripping it," says Grapentine. Hands-free is great because "the less you have to worry about, the more you can get done."