Here are 10 Innovative Umbrella Designs That You Would Not Have Seen Before!

1. Nubrella

2. The Unbrella

3. Isa Brella

4. The Rain Shield

5. Forecast Umbrella

6. Umbuster

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7. The Senz Umbrella

8. Goggle Umbrella

9. Rainshader

10. The Upbrella

8 creative murphy beds

The Murphy Bed is named after its inventor Lawrence Murphy in 1900, it is a name given to any bed that can be folded up against a wall or hidden and exposed as the home owner pleases. The Murphy Bed has risen back into prominence in contemporary design due to its ability to work around the increasingly smaller and space constrained living spaces available in most modern cities. It also has functional and aesthetic value to larger rooms and houses, lending flexibility and a sense of space to the living area. Here we have listed out some of the iconic Murphy Beds from over the last century.

1. Piano Bed

The famous Piano Bed is a variation on the most popular form of the Murphy Bed which involves a cabinet or mantlepiece that can be folded out to form a bed. this was especially important in the 19th and 20th century due to the fact that it allowed families of less than noble heritage to maintain a parlor room and a bedroom with the only room they had. The Parlour room was seen as a sign of opulence, wealth and high social status. Therefore there was a race to turn various pieces of furniture in the parlour room into a foldable bed. The Piano is probably the most amazing such innovation, for believe it or not, the piano bed above is both a functional piano and a bed.

2. Elevator Murphy Bed

The elevated bed is a fresh invention from modern living spaces. It borrows its cues from automated multi level car parking systems, and incorporates a simple pulley that is capable of lifting the bed to the ceiling and bringing it to floor level, as the use case demands. This system works especially well because it does away with the folding mechanism, which is often seen as being unsafe, and unreliable.

3. Tardis Murphy Bed

For fans of the Dr. Who series, there is the opportunity to live out your dreams, literally speaking, and pull down the TARDIS, to get your cozy, comfortable bed. This guarantees instant sleeping pleasure.

4. Dorm Murphy Bed

This idealised Dorm room makes excellent use of space and aesthetics, providing a student with all the usual features of a dorm, with half the space, but twice the luxury and feeling of airiness. This is a good example of the kind of problem that the Murphy Bed can solve.

5. Locker Murphy Bed

The classic locker bed is one of the most popular Murphy Bed constructions on the market today with many DIY guides available as well. This is sure to attract sports fans who can flaunt their favourite players names and numbers during the day, and yet have a comfortable bed to sleep in at night.

6. Murphy Bunk Bed

The murphy bunk bed uses all the innovative features of the murphy bed, and applies it to the more complicated problem of providing more than one bed in a living space. As can be seen from the concept above, the Murphy Bed does an amazing job in fitting two beds where there was previous only space for one.

7. DIY Murphy Beds

The modern DIY versions of the original Murphy beds are by far the most popular. A lot of people build it themselves, and unlike some of the more fancy ones on this chart, these beds simpler, more traditional Murphy beds are amazing in their own right, because they offer endless customisation options to furniture makers and house owners, and provide all the features of the Murphy Bed. The most amazing thing about the DIY beds are how well integrated these products look into the decor of the room.

8. Pet Murphy Bed

The last bed on the list, is the award winning pet Murphy bed, because there is absolutely no reason that your pets should not enjoy the same luxuries as you, and the pet Murphy bed accomplishes the important task of keeping the pets living area out of view when not needed, but warm and comfortable for your adorable pets during the night.

15 Amazing and Strange Google Earth Secrets.

Shipwrecked SS Ayrfield with Trees -33.836379, 151.080506 Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia.

 Grand Prismatic Spring 44.525049, -110.83819 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Big Red Lips in the Desert 12°22’13.32″N, 23°19’20.18″E Sudan.

 Giant US Flag 7300 Airport Blvd, Houston, TX 77061, USA

Red Sea Governorate, Egypt (27°22’50.10″N, 33°37’54.62″E)

Coronado, California, USA (32°40’34.19″N 117° 9’27.58″W)

Solar Field 34.871778, -116.834192 Daggett, California

Hippo Pool 6°53’53.00″ S 31°11’15.40″ E Katavi National Park, Tanzania 

Come Downtown and Play 35.141533, -90.052695 Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Rainbow Plane Cathy Terrace Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , USA ‎

Heart-Shaped Land Formation 20°56’15.47″S, 164°39’30.56″E New Caledonia

UTA Flight 772 Desert Memorial 16.864841, 11.953808 Sahara Desert, southern Ténéré of Niger.

Uluru / Ayers Rock -25.344375, 131.034401 Northern Territory, Austrlia.

Oil Fields 37°39’16.06″S 68°10’16.42″W Rio Negro, Argentina

 Multiple Landing Strips in the Desert 32.663367, -111.487618 Eloy, Arizona, USA

31 Mind Boggling Cricket Facts That’ll Make You Go Woah!

1. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.

2. Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. 

3. Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s. 

4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. 

This is how the over went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1

But what many people don’t know is that the bowling team allowed the batting team to get close enough to the target and give them a chance to win so that they take risks and get out! 

5. Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut.

He played 96 Test matches between 5^th November 1999 and 24^th January 2008 without dropping out from any of them. 

6. Ishant Sharma is responsible for all the three highest scores made by a batsman against India in the 21^stcentury. 

Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011; Michael Clarke – 329 Runs, Sydney 2012; Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014. They were all dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings. 

7. On 12^th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai. 

His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled. 

8. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored. 

In 71 Tests, Martin has scored 123 runs, while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name along with 242 wickets. 

9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket.

No, it’s not a typo. He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs. 

10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career. 

11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls.

In the Prudential World Cup of 1975, in the match between India and England, England set the target of 335 runs in 60 overs. Sunil Gavaskar batted throughout the innings and scored only 36 runs  of 174 balls. India managed to score only 132 runs in 60 overs with 7 wickets in hand. 

  

12. Jim Laker once took 19 wickets in a Test match. 

13. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup. 

14. After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times. 

And in 4 of these 5 matches, Virat Kohli scored a century. 

15. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.

16.  Sachin + Zaheer = (Almost) Kallis 

17. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh. 

He’s been unbeaten a total of 61 times in 185 innings. 

18. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs. 

19. Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket. 

20. Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a ODI match. 

21. In 1989, along with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debuts. The last one to retire before Sachin, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004. 

22. Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket. 

23. Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career. 

24. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.

119 was scored in an IPL game. 

25. Wasim Akram’s highest Test innings score of 257 is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar's (who has 248 n.o. to his credit).

 26. The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.

27. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

28. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.

29. Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches.

30. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him.

31. Saeed Ajmal has never won a Man of the Match award in One Day International Cricket.