Octobrella by GE + BLUNT

First off congrats on launching PH shop! Just a bit of feedback, my first inclination was to try and find more information on this umbrella somewhere on the page, kind of like how amazon has some really fleshed out product pages. Clicking "website" just takes me to a checkout form. A little hesitant to drop 80 bones based off of a handful of pictures.

Wales NEEDS you ☔️

I've been lucky enough to spend the last 12 years at GE Global Research working on a wide variety of technologies that solve important problems for Aviation, Power, and Oil & Gas. In the Composites Design and Analysis Lab where I work, we focus primarily on delivering amazing new composite material technologies for aircraft engines and wind turbines which allow our customers to fly and generate power more efficiently and at lower cost. But I'm only one proud member of a much larger community who creates solutions for what the world needs. So, why am I here talking about an Umbrella? I was inspired by the way Greig and Blunt approached the problem of terrible weather by using his engineering background and a splash of ingenuity to re-invent the umbrella. Though the applications of aircraft engine fan blades and umbrellas are quite different, it was amazing to see the similarities in the composite material design challenges. In either case, we pursue the lightest possible design that is capable of withstanding events like hail storms, high aerodynamic loads and even large impacts. So because of that shared ethos, we asked Blunt to craft the Octobrella, inspired by our latest video, as a symbol for how we build solutions to whatever the world calls for. To be clear, this isn’t a GE product, but something that allows us to apply our philosophical approach to any challenge. We are so excited to partner with Product Hunt and help the world’s brightest makers, creators, and technologists--like Blunt--get their products out into the world as fast as they can.