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"100% windproof" Downtown in any big city would probably prove that to be wrong very quickly. Toronto destroys umbrellas. They make some nice claims WITHOUT any warranty at all.
A bit of copy-editing:
'percepitation' in all the screenshots should be 'precipitation'. Or possibly just 'rain' / 'snow' / 'hail' ;)
'It doesn't bother you if leave one of your safe locations' -> 'It doesn't bother you if [you] leave [it in] one of your safe locations'
'It works in the buildings' -> 'It works in buildings'
I'll also second "too many uses of perfect". If it's perfect, why does it come with a warranty? ;)
Is this a problem people are willing to pay to solve? Is the fact that it's raining outside a good enough reminder not to lose your umbrella? Just curious.
People often carry umbrellas in areas where rain is less predictable. I've left umbrellas in restaurants etc. before, but... a) I know where I left it, and b) a decent umbrella costs $3 where I live, so I'd need to lose 20 before this became cost effective.
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Actually no, because the use case is quite different. We wanted to create an umbrella that really has an app that helps. With Tile, you would just get the location feature, without the weather forecast
A person named Goran who created a smart umbrella called "Kisha" - rain in srbo-croatian. The world makes sense :)
As a habitual umbrella-loser, this is an awesome product :D A bit of copy-editing: 'percepitation' in all the screenshots should be 'precipitation'. Or possibly just 'rain' / 'snow' / 'hail' ;) 'It doesn't bother you if leave one of your safe locations' -> 'It doesn't bother you if [you] leave [it in] one of your safe locations' 'It works in the buildings' -> 'It works in buildings' I'll also second "too many uses of…
The idea of taking a mundane household object and adding bluetooth + app support to it is not a sensible formula for innovation. I can think of a hundred products that follow from this formula, and they're all terrible:
* Coffee machine + App. Tells you when coffee is ready. Tell coffee machine to start making coffee as you wake up.
* Vacuum cleaner + App. Tells you when the bag is almost full, sends automatic push notification when you haven't vacuumed a room for too long (using GPS and artificial intelligence!)
* Phone charger + App. Send a push notification to your tablet when your phone is done charging and vice versa.
* Water dispenser + App. Lets you know when your plants need water.
* Sandwich + App. Will send you a push notification when you've eaten the sandwich and final push notification when the sandwich has left your body.
These innovations are just gimmicks, and have no hope of ever becoming more than that. A shame, because launching any kind of product takes a tremendous amount of effort, and I'd rather see people put that effort into something more productive.