Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?
Barrington@feddit.org 2 days ago
Is your plan to walk around with your umbrella up when it’s bright and sunny, or to wait until it’s overcast, dark, and rainy—hoping I charge something?"
Maybe a parasol would be a better idea?
ValiantDust@feddit.org 2 days ago
Funnily enough, the word umbrella derives from the Latin word umbra, meaning shadow. An Umbrella was originally for protection against the sun. I know it now usually is used for the thing protecting you from rain (at least in English), I just thought it was funny that people did walk around with what they called an umbrella when it’s bright and sunny for a few hundred years.