Don't you hate it when it starts to pour with rain, and you're caught outside without an umbrella? The Lampbrella concept solves that problem, by building communal umbrellas that deploy automatically from the street lamps whenever the sky decides to open up.

Lightsaber and samurai umbrellas are cool, but you know what is cooler? A rifle umbrella. Yeah, something tells us toting this umbrella around is just asking for all sorts of trouble.

When designer Sebastian Errazuriz lived in Scotland, he played a lot of golf in the rain, and he and his fellow golfers found the umbrella just as ubiquitous as the club. So what's a good designer do? An umbrella/golf club...

When it rains, you're really down to one hand when you whip out your umbrella. Then you're left trying to juggle any number of things: cellphone, briefcase, slice of pizza, keys to your battlesuit. In Japan, however, there's another way....