They get lost a lot. They poke people in the eye. And they act unruly on windy days.
The trusted Umbrella is being reinvented, after being around for more than 3 thousand years.
In Australia, they found an average of 20 umbrella-related injuries a year.
To help avoid those, newly designed umbrellas include the drop, which is a pop up canopy made of 6 parts - a brolly that can withstand winds of 100 kilometres an hour - and ones you can attach to your bike.