Will New Yorkers Wear Nubrellas?

While you may not need an umbrella on a day like today, if rainy days often leave you fumbling as you multitask -- there may be a solution: this new umbrella from the future! It will keep you dry while you check emails on your iPhone, smoke a cigarette, and search your bag for coffee money (the website even shows a cyclist using one).

ABC News tells us "The Nubrella is a big plastic dome that rests on your shoulders. It keeps you dry through the strongest rain storm," and it will only cost you your dignity (and $49.99 + tax).

Would You Be Caught Wearing This? Nubrella.

Want to keep dry? Willing to sacrifice some of your dignity to do it?

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More PhotosA new kind of umbrella promises to keep you drier while you fiddle with your cell phone, handbag or briefcase.

The Nubrella is a big plastic dome that rests on your shoulders. While it keeps you dry through the strongest rain storm, that level of weather protection comes at a cost: Let's just call it the dorkiness factor.

Look rain, no hands! Space helmet-like umbrella lets your hands get on with business, Nubrella

It happens every time it rains. Productivity on the street goes down 50 percent as one good hand, which could be used for texting, coffee-clutching, hand-holding or gesticulating, gets monopolized by an unwieldy umbrella.

What's a good multi-tasker to do? Enter Nubrella, an oversized space helmet-like apparatus billed by the company as the hands-free "Ultimate Weather Protector."

Introducing a Totally Hands Free Umbrella -- Nubrella

Ever wish you had an umbrella that was totally hands free?

So said the inventor of Nubrella , which basically is named for new+umbrella, billed to be the ultimate weather protector. It is the first truly hands free umbrella in the world. The creator claims that it stops rain, wind, snow and extreme cold- and keeps your head, face and shoulders dry.

Nubrella, a new take on an old standby

STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- Billing itself as the "ultimate weather protector," the Nubrella promises carriers hands-free navigation and a clear line of sight.

Nubrella covers the head, face and shoulders, and with shoulder straps and an offset handle, it's even possible to stay dry while riding a bike.

New umbrella design - but would you wear it? (+video)

Slated as the latest advancement in weather protection, the "Nubrella" aims to be the umbrella of the 21st century.

The invention provides a hands-free, plastic shield that surrounds the upper-body and is guaranteed not to invert in high winds.

See the Nubrella Video and judge for yourself...

Nubrella Offers Hands-Free Umbrella

This "umbrella of the 21st century" attaches via shoulder straps and has a stabilizing handle. Because it wraps around the torso, the $60 canopy won't catch the wind and turn inside out: the makers claim that it will withstand gusts of up to 50mph.

Nubrella is supposed to protect your upper body from the elements while keeping your hands free...

Nubrella protects upper body from weather but not from embarrassment

Introducing nubrella; "The Ultimate Weather Protector". Nubrella is no ordinary umbrella. It protects you against rain, wind, sleet, snow and extreme cold. It is an umbrella for all inclement weather conditions not just rain.