A collapsible device that forms a canopy to protect the bearer from the sun or rain has been in use for more than 3,000 years. In many countries it has been used as a ceremonial item and to show high rank. The word comes from the Italian word ombrella,...

An umbrella or parasol (sometimes colloquially, gamp, brolly, or bumbershoot) is a canopy device designed to protect from precipitation or sunlight. The term parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun, and umbrella refers to a...

Some singers take two-year breaks between albums. Rihanna is working on her third disc, just two years after releasing her first. "It's a nonstop pace, very speedily, and Def Jam does not play, that's all I can tell you," she joked of her record label...

Ambient Devices made a splash a few years ago when it released an odd glowing glass orb that changed color depending on the direction of the stock market or the temperature outside.The orb provided just a single point of data, an approach that was the...