Walk down the street in New York City after a particularly rough thunderstorm, and you’ll see dozens of beaten, broken umbrellas stuffed into trash cans. These $5 drug store umbrellas all suffered the ...

For an object we carry, curse, and replace with alarming regularity, the umbrella has barely evolved. Too small, too flimsy, or simply not cut out for bad weather, most designs fail in familiar ways.

Struggling with an umbrella that has blown inside out in the wind is enough to dampen anyone's spirit. A newly-designed umbrella based on origami, however, could make it less of a struggle. The Sa ...