An innovative product developed by a Mumbai entrepreneur duo converts sunlight into electricity, harvests rainwater, and provides shade Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most effective. This see…
The invention relates to a rainwater collector for an umbrella, which comprises a base matched with an umbrella tip of the umbrella, a water collecting barrel connected with the base, and an evaporating barrel arranged at the outer part of the water collecting barrel, wherein a cavity is arranged be... Read more
Rainwater is usually safe to drink directly unless it has caught some contaminants on its way down. However, you don’t want to take that chance, do you? Well luckily for us, BMSTU design student Volkan Ugurel has come up with an innovative idea of integrating a filtration system right into the sha... Read more
My invention is an umbrella with a filter inside that takes rain and gives it to you to drink. When you want a drink you press the button on the umbrella stick and it takes the rain and filters it and pours the water through the tube into the cup with a straw.
Check out this car park umbrella that collects water and solar energy.
https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2018/06/01/upturned-umbrella-catches-sunshine-and-rain/
There is a patent for a rainwater-collecting umbrella.
Here’s a design concept for a rain-filtering umbrella.
https://www.yankodesign.com/2020/08/24/this-minimalist-umbrella-purifies-and-stores-rainwater-in-its-shaft/
Found these instructions for creating a water-harvesting umbrella with a filter from your ordinary umbrella.
https://www.littleinventors.org/ideas/the-umbrella-filter/details
This guy has the right idea. Unfortunately, the water is not filtered, and the umbrella won’t do much to protect you from the rain.