{"id":11573,"date":"2014-10-15T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2014-10-14T23:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:39:18","slug":"air-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/air-umbrella\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101514_0335_AirUmbrella1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re inventing force fields! What are we using it to protect, you ask? Tactical nuclear warheads? Strategic bits of infrastructure? George R.R. Martin?<\/p>\n<p>No, as a society we&#8217;ve decided that the best use of this technology is to avoid a touch of rain. Michael Franco wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Air Umbrella on Kickstarter has raised $22,000 of its original $10,000 goal with 9 days to go.<\/li>\n<li>It will use pressurized air to protect users from the rain.<\/li>\n<li>It comes in three different versions and is expected to cost up to about $150.<\/li>\n<li>The battery is nothing to write home about \u2013 it&#8217;ll last between 15 and 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Expected delivery is December, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the project, how it works, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/umbrella-keeps-you-dry-with-invisible-force-field-of-air\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/umbrella-keeps-you-dry-with-invisible-force-field-of-air\/\">CNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re inventing force fields! What are we using it to protect, you ask? Tactical nuclear warheads? Strategic bits of infrastructure? George R.R. Martin? No, as a society we&#8217;ve decided that the best use of this technology is to avoid a touch of rain. Michael Franco wrote: An Air Umbrella on Kickstarter has raised $22,000 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101514_0335_AirUmbrella1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11575,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/11575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}