I tried using "reverse ice umbrella umbrella GAX UMBRELLA" that shows a true opposite movement from an ordinary umbrella

Speaking of an "umbrella" that everyone has taken care of is a gaze that opens on the front side with a handle, probably a 99% umbrella in the world that has such a structure. Breaking such common sense, the tip of the umbrella opens up umbrella "GAX UMBRELLA G-1"(Gax umbrella) was released in August 2015, so I decided to borrow and use the real thing. Although it is an umbrella designed with thought going on top of Naname, in fact it seems that ingenuity to solve the problem which the conventional umbrella had is taken in.

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Gaksu Umbrella is the name of an umbrella developed by You Trading Corporation in Aichi Prefecture. Even with a conventional umbrella, even when it is folded, the surface wetted by rain comes out to the outside, so when you walk it you wet the pants and skirt, or when you brought it to the car, you got wet the carpet in the car . Gacks umbrella tried to solve such a problem with the idea of ​​not letting wet side out.


Even if it says "Do not let wet surfaces go out", it may be difficult to image the movement. In the following movies you can see the movement of such an umbrella.

Conversely opening and closing the umbrella "GAX UMBRELLA G-1" to open, such feeling - YouTube


Hold the handle part and push the slide part of the umbrella up to the tip with the other hand.


Then, the tip of the umbrella cloth opens to the outside as if the morning glory flower opens.


When pushing up the slide part as it is, the umbrella cloth is flipped and sounded "snaps" and the expansion of the umbrella is completed. It looks almost the same as an ordinary umbrella.


Unique umbrella bone movement looks like this. When pushing up the slide, the collapsed umbrella bone begins to spread outward 360 degrees ......


While the umbrella frame of a complicated link structure spreads exquisitely, I will reverse the folded umbrella cloth. Although it can be understood by watching the movie, it seems to be said that despite considerably complicated movements movement of the hand is one action, it is noteworthy point.


Pushing up until it sounds "click", the umbrella cloth tightened up and became usable as an ordinary umbrella.


When collapsing, the movement at the time of spreading will be reversed. Pull the slide part toward you, fold the umbrella cloth while umbrella bones move complicatedly ... ....


When a sound is heard, it is in a state of being folded completely. In this state, the outside is not wet at all, so it will not get wet even if you round the umbrella cloth by hand and tie it with a belt.


This gacks umbrella is also developed as a convenient umbrella when getting on and off a car. In the official movie below, you can see how easy it is to use when getting on and off the rainy day.

Car convenient umbrella GAX Umbrella - YouTube


The moment of opening the door and descending. It will be a tough situation to rain when it rains or to take out an umbrella and spread it out.


With Gacks umbrella, pulling out an umbrella from inside of the car like this ... ...


As you spread out, the umbrella will spread out as the umbrella grows away from the car.


And the umbrella is expanded. It is possible to get off the car as if nothing had happened. By extending the handle first, it is also prevented that an umbrella hits the car body and scratches are attached.


On the contrary, when you get on the car in the rain, you can demonstrate your way. Open the door ......


Screw it on the seat with the umbrella still on.


Pull the slide and the umbrella is overhead and flattened and compact. Moreover, since the surface wetted by rain is folded inward, it is possible to avoid situations where water drips into the car and becomes "ah".


Then lightly turn the water off towards the ground and go inside the car. Even in that case the wet side does not go out to the outside, so there is no worry of getting wet inside the car. It can be said to be a really reasonable structure.


Gacks umbrella arrived in this package. It is in a firm box that is impossible to do with an ordinary umbrella.


In the black box is a bright red. I misunderstood to say "wow" just by opening the box.


Inside the box is another thing that can not be an ordinary umbrella. This umbrella has written on how to handle buttons and handles "instruction manual"Was bundled. If you get used to it, there is nothing to be done, but at first it may be necessary to practice a little bit of operation.


The size is like this. The total length of the umbrella is 93 cm, the diameter of the spread cloth is 63 cm and it is a solid umbrella slightly larger, the weight is 630 g and it is the same level as the larger men's umbrella here.


Having on the ground, the umbrella cloth spreading like a skirt is pretty sweet.


There are six umbrella bones, and two arms are connected to each bone. In addition, parts are attached so that the umbrella bone bends at a position slightly away from the root. These parts are mechanically intertwined and move, so that they are spreading in a complicated way. When explaining with words, it takes a huge amount of characters, so it is best to have a movie seen and understood many times.


The ribbon leading to the handle has become an aluminum pipe with a cross section of a square shape that is rare for an umbrella. This is to prevent the rotation of the umbrella and to be able to take up the area of ​​one side widely. In addition, the aluminum pipe is treated with alumite treatment and is colored in bright red.


Umbrella cloth is a two piece structure inside and outside. By doing this, it is said that the infiltration of rainwater when folded is further stopped.


The six umbrella bones are made of carbon fiber. It was totally different from the type of press made by an umbrella that can be purchased cheaply, making it feel that good materials are being used.


Resin is often used for the parts of the umbrella bone, but the appearance quality is further improved by painting further after molding. It may be such a part that leads to pleasure and pleasure with something of good quality.


In this way, the Gacks Umbrella, which was made with various sticking attitudes, was an umbrella that was completed after 10 years of prototyping and hundreds of prototypes.


It is such a Gacks Umbrella, but I hear the voice saying "Is it too expensive?" From somewhere. The prediction is certainly correct, the price of one34,000 yen(Tax excluded) and those which can be said to be luxury goods as supermarkets are superior to general umbrellas. However, as an umbrella of this price range, it is called the British royal warrantmentFox · UmbrellaOr, it is the imperial warrant of JapanMaehara Koyo StoreIt is also true that there are products such as price ranges that are never possible.

The editorial staff who created this article is also one who was surprised at the beginning of the price, but when you look at the real thing, if you find a value for the mechanical structure by its own development and the high quality I judged it as "ant" sufficiently. You need a little courage to buy yourself, but it may be a product you will be pleased if you are given as a gift.