Behold The Internet Umbrella, Get Hit By Car, Die

Just what we needed: another device capable of surfing the web. This time it's an umbrella. Yes, an umbrella. With the internet.

The good people over at Pileus have finally given us an entertaining way to absent-mindedly step into traffic and get crushed by an oncoming Lexus. It's kind of perfect. The built-in camera can capture the accident to be used in court.

The website boasts of the umbrella's other silly features:

Pileus has a large screen on the top surface, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS, and a digital compass, and it provides two main functions; A Social Photo-sharing and A 3D Map Navigation. The photo function is connected to a major web service "Flickr". A user can take photo with a camera on the umbrella, and pictures are uploaded to Flickr in two minutes with context tags via a wireless Internet connection. User can also enjoy theirselves [sic] watching photo-streams downloaded from Flickr with simple operation of wrist snapping.

The internet umbrella is so stupid it's brilliant. And while the practicality of a GPS system in an umbrella is halfway intelligent, it's also an effing distraction.

What I can say without hesitation is that I'd definitely mug someone carrying this thing around.

Pileus Umbrella: The Internet Umbrella [Apartment Therapy Unplugged]