Can an Umbrella Made of Water Stop the Rain? 

Now all we need is an earth umbrella and we have the four umbrellaments

I could imagine a standing umbrella that does this. It even keeps other people from entering your personal space.

"So I'm not getting wet right now" Literally see water drops on his shirt lmao.

To give more momentum to falling droplets with the same flow speed try denser fluid. Mercury umbrella should work.

Obviously, the water is not viscous enough to deflect the rain drop ! But the HONEY UMBRELLA should work...

How about targeting individual rain drops with a laser system to vaporize the ones that will hit you, and ignore the rest?

but did you try an umbrella made out of umbrellas

"so im not getting wet right now" visibly sees the water droplets on his shirt

What you need is a solid umbrella. Since something like a big dish or shield would be heavy, you can make it out of something like waterproof fabric. Then give it a vertical handle so it’s easier to hold. If you really want to get fancy, make it able to fold up when you’re done. That sounds like a crazy feat of engineering, though. No one’s going to invest in making something like that.

Rather than use something relatively intangible like air/fire, or something as amorphous as water, perhaps it would be better to make an umbrella out of a solid material. Maybe some sort of fabric made of nylon, polyester, and pongee, connected to thin metal spokes to help hold its shape. You could even make the spokes fold inward when not in use for ease of portability... Actually now that I think about it, there's no way that would work. Absolute crazy talk.

I definitely didn't searched for this video, but this was a great experiment. Thank you.

Next up: "Can a shield out of fire protect you from getting burnt!"

This looks like it would be a fun addition to certain attractions at a water park.

You should make an electric umbrella. Pretty much like a stun baton. It'll simply paralyze the water before it touches you, and also eat away all that pesky lightning.

Make a laser umbrella that just zaps all those dubious drops 😂

I absolutely love the fact that this is going to get everyone around you soaking wet while you stay dry 😂

Air, fire, water... I guess the next umbrella will be a sand blaster?

So to make a water umbrella, get yourself a firetruck and try to deflect every droplet, eventually run out of water and just ride the firetruck instead.

laser umbrella that observes the space around you and then sends a jet of photons to evaporate them one by one.

Next up: lightning umbrellas 😂

What about a propeller umbrella? It could spin fast enough to hit all the raindrops, and it might even let you jump higher!

When you are worried about all the people around you getting wet with your high speed water umbrella, but not about the fire umbrella you tried a while ago.

When i was young i thought up a wearable umbrella that used static electricity to deflect the water. i didn't know that water was charge positive and negative so only half would deflect

😂😂😂 the micheal superbacker lore is crazy

Just love this guy's nerdy reaction and confidence while standing inside water umbrella says "i am completely dry" while his shirt seems taking shots of water drops 😂😂😂😂😂

0:07 he says he’s not getting wet but his shirt is getting wet 😂

Creating a water umbrella for protection against rainfall is an intriguing concept that could offer a unique feature to a garden. The crucial aspect lies in the management of air distribution to establish a functional water umbrella. To construct a water umbrella, a robust air compressor would be integral for generating the requisite water pressure. By employing a sophisticated air compressor, it becomes possible to regulate and distribute the water effectively, fostering the formation of a water umbrella that can shield against rain. An innovative approach involving the utilization of advanced technological components, coupled with an understanding of fluid dynamics, could lead to the realization of this distinctive garden feature, offering an inventive solution to the age-old challenge of staying dry amidst a downpour.

Hear me out, this might seem weird but imagine making an umbrella using a fabric like polyester that is waterproof. 🧐

Hear me out: an umbrella that shoots some kind of waterproof fabric to each side to completely stop the rain. Perhaps we could even create it so the fabric is reusable, maybe even retractable…

Bro took fighting fire with fire to a different level 😂

What if you double or triple the layer of water? Maybe the first one will slow the drop of water down to the second and it will not have enough speed to go through the third layer

This feels like the kind of thing where a water umbrella is a really bad idea, but it leads to some very different and useful application elsewhere.

Long ago, the four umbrellas lived together in harmony … then everything changed when the Fire umbrella attacked. The Earth umbrella vanished when the world needed it the most

“Im not getting wet” shoulder soaked and drops of water on shirt 😂

I love how involved his family is in helping him with the umbrella shenanigans! 😂☔

Interesting! My parents have a kitchen faucet that has a setting where it uses a laminar flow “shield” to avoid spray from an inner higher pressure stream. It works pretty well in my experience, so you can use the high-pressure spray without water getting all over the place. Similar concept to a water umbrella!

People around me trying to kill me before I get one of these XD

There’s so much pressure he’s going to start flying any moment now.😂

I wonder whether four very thin, closely spaced layers of fast-flowing water might be enough to deflect raindrops. The top layer would deflect them a bit; the second rather more, and the third rather more again. Finally, the fourth might carry them along.

At this point it might be easier to go straight to the source and eliminate the rain altogether. How about building a laser powerful enough to vaporize any rain clouds above you?

I appreciate this engineer more than the original air (kickstarter) dreamer. That was just pure hot air, packaging an imagination he couldn't back up with real science.

you can do oil umbrella since oil and water doesn't stick well together, also make it 3 layers with the middle one being a hydrophobic fluid

What about a layered approach? If you have several layers of low pressure laminar flow within the one umbrella, the rain drop will decrease it's momentum while passing through each layer. Would add complexity to the build, but with 2-3 layers, that could decrease the momentum enough to deflect a max velocity free-fall drip of water

We had: - air umbrella - fire umbrella - water umbrella Next: would the earth umbrella work?

I think electic umbrella would be a great experiment in the future✨

You might search for mushroom or 360deg fountain sprinkler heads. I don't know what sort of pressures the laminar flow breaks down, but you can achieve a pretty good (very good) "umbrella" spray pattern. Interesting experiment for sure. Thx !

I figured it out, what you need to do is freeze the water into a dome-like shape that you can hold over your head. Can't believe no one's thought of this. Although, now that I think of it, maybe instead of frozen water you could cut down on the weight with something like waterproof cloth, or maybe thin plastic. But then you'd need to add some structural supports in there.

The laminar flow of the water umbrella can be improved I think. Maybe a circular plate instead of a square plate? And maybe a 3d printed inversed cone part to split the water more evenly, instead of just letting water splash into the plate directly. I mean, the momentum problem will still occur I guess but it could be a much more successful laminar flow.

"It uses water to protect you from the rain, so I'm not getting wet right now" He says as you can watch small droplets of water hitting his shirt. This just wastes water and actually protects you from the rain less than a normal umbrella.

"Who cares about the people around me, I'm dry..." Finally some science I understand.

Environmentalists - Save water! This guy :

Imagine walking down a street nice and dry, and some dude with a water umbrella shooting water at high speeds all around him.

well thats one way to so social distancing 😂

In the first experiment with black drops at low speed, it is clear that the dome of water bends down significantly over a large area around the drop. It seems to me that this does not correspond to the model of impulse transmission, or the impulse is somehow transmitted not only along the flow of water, but also in other directions. I wonder if we put this water umbrella on a precision scale, will it show an increase in weight when we start pouring water from above?

"I'm dry under here" right sleeve drenched in water, water droplets everywhere. Mmk. lol

The way her wife helps him is appreciatable No matter how crazy and weird his ideas were she helps.

2:34 "And our test subject remains dry inside" I see what you did there 😂

😂😂😂 damn that shot at Michael at the end was just unessisarry

This would be a great foundain project, across the street in the big city, high power water shots across creating a roof, and then turning into a water foundation.

Next video: Can you hear rain fall in the quietest room painted with blackest black in a vacuum powered by car turbines?

if your having trouble overcoming the momentum with velocity, try increasing the volume. make the water umbrella so thick that the drops won’t get through. you could even add multiple layers to it

Do a sand umbrella, that will definitely work

4:57 when you get home from a road trip.

0:05 "So I'm not getting wet right now" *Is clearly getting wet* Ah, The Action Lab.

I need a combo between this guy and Mark Rober

"So I'm not getting wet right now" as more droplets appear on his shirt 😂😂

"So I'm not getting wet right now" he says, with around 20 drops of water on his shirt 🤣🤣

An ion umbrella would be pretty cool! I think water has a slightly negative charge right? So you could create a negative forcefield to repel or a positive one which channels the rain down some stalks and off to the side

A solid backpack with an open top prefilled with water connected to the umbrella would be effective during a normal/heavy rainstorm!

Reminds me of when Spongebob made a sweater with his tears

I would love to see it done using that speaker/frequency/vibration that makes the water chance shape. Perhaps with a different water frequency structure it would be harder for penetration?

Dude *thank you* for taking the time to make these videos. I'm pretty sure somebody else said it already but the way you explain the gimmicks behind what's happening is crystal clear and makes me wonder.

I can see these things scaled up to huge sizes for pavilions and gazebos at big franchise hotels or those massive hotels they have in Singapore or Dubai. Both places I’ve been to and could see something like this be a hit!

I love how you just made a bold faced lie at the very beginning of the video then continued like it didn't just happen XD

How about creating some kind of sound / vibration umbrella? It would be fun

A magnetic field umbrella or if you want to improve your wind and water umbrella, how about making it so that it detects each drop of rain and shots an aimed water droplet or puff of air to the falling water to deflect them. This way it's more power and water efficient. Make it so the umbrella has a water collecting mechanism so it can continuously fire water droplets. Like, what if there's a small parabolic camera and a computer contraption near the tip that act as both water collection and rain drop detector? In fine weather, you can use it as a sun shield by unfolding its solar panels to charge the umbrella. These solar panels are not meant to be used on rain because they'll have to be thin and automatically retractable so the handle of the umbrella stays manageable and light. It has to be retractable to around 10-12 inches to it can be stored easily and has a built in powerful flashlight on the opposite end of the water collecting contraption.

at 5:34 it seemed like you really experienced the impact of the water, even though it was only the bucket water interacting with the hose water. It would be super cool if you could make a video about this, and explaining how moment is transferred in fluids. By the way, your content is always top-notch! Keep up the awesome work!

You know what you must now do: the earth umbrella.

This is like saying can a ring of fire protect me from fire?🤣

The commitment to entirely impractical scenarios in the interests of exploring the raw science is immensely entertaining.

Chad priority : 4:36 🤝

3:25 - having a scientist dad must be so cool

All u need is sumthin to catch the high velocity water and recycle it. Probably use a ring and set up attachment bars and have the water stream across to each bar creating a water barrier

Your kid seemed like she was having so much fun helping you with this experiment. Your wife also seemed to enjoy it, and boy, she must love you if she's gonna contribute to your silly experiments! very happy for you to have a nice family like that. i envy you. but, it would be kinda cool to see more experiments that involve you and your family!

I suggest you create a layered water umbrella. 1st layer is to slow down the momentum of the rain. 2nd layer is to deflect. This might also work also on air umbrella.

The fire one was a troll pick 😂😂😂

Ok, umbrella ideas....electric lattice umbrella, under water umbrella, combustion umbrella and finally an outsourced umbrella

Hear me out, what if you made a solid umbrella, like an umbrella made out of some sort of solid material that stops the water. That could maybe work.

It’s amazing you’re working through each of the different ways to repel water for your umbrella idea. Could you maybe try a sonic sound umbrella? I took inspiration from those experiments where people capture water droplets in two facing streams of sound waves, and can move the water droplet around by turning up one sound stream and down the other. Maybe you could have a baseball bat shaped umbrella stem that has hexagonal shaped ultrasonic sound emitters, stacked vertically down the stem, repelling water from around you before they hit you? You might get a light dusting of water after the droplets have been broken up, but it would be much better than getting caught in a downpour! 😄

You should use 2-3 layers of water umbrella in one. it can probably show down the momentum of drop until reaching the 3rd layer maybe

it becomes *slightly* more practical if you angle the water umbrella downward at a 45 degree angle. you achieve the same result but the area of effect of your water umbrelly is dramatically reduced compared to holding it horizontally.

I can't stop laughing whenever Joana is involved. 😄

I believe that there is an easier solution, get a plastic like polyester fabric rap it around in a metal hollow cage which has a waterproof sealant so it can slide off easily. To finish it off, add a nice hook at the bottom so the grip is easier

"i think im done taking suggestions from youtube commenters" is his wisest decision to date.

Individual water molecules are small magnets, so maybe a magnetic field could deflect them. I suppose you could also freeze molecularly aligned water into ice making an ice magnet.

This video gave me a really good umbrella idea, and since you mentioned umbrella suggestions: What about a fabric-umbrella, polyester perhaps?

Your dedication to peoples need for impossible machines is notable my friend. Seen you for years you're always a win.

Only action labs, the umbravatar, can master all four brellements.

Conventional umbrella laughing at this 😂

This could work as a beach umbrella or a stationary umbrella by a lake, sort of like a tent. The sea or lake could be the source of water for the umbrella, and because you’re stationary, you don’t have to worry about taking a large sum of water with you