Every April 1st, tech companies dust off their comedy hats and try to out-absurd each other. Samsung teases a phone made of cheese. Google announces something involving pigeons. But OPPO has gone and announced the Find U, a fully specced-out smart umbrella that borrows from its flagship foldable playbook and then absolutely refuses to stop there. It’s ridiculous. It’s brilliant. And if it were real, half the tech press would already be reviewing it.
The Find U packs the Find N6’s Flexion Hinge technology and has been rated for 600,000 folds. That’s more folds than most people will open an umbrella in ten lifetimes but engineering credibility is apparently non-negotiable even in satire. It features a faux-leather canopy that doubles as a 4K display on the inside, so you can doomscroll while dodging raindrops. The UI shown in promotional images suggests it runs Google’s wait for it Android Umbrella OS.
You can long-press the handle to change the umbrella’s colour, take photos with built-in cameras, and unlock the umbrella with your fingerprint. Because password-protected umbrellas are apparently the security gap nobody knew needed solving.
There’s a Solar Mode that turns the canopy into a charger, a self-drying mode that vibrates water away at 60,000Hz, and AI-powered wind resistance with micro-thrusters that give you a gentle push forward, up to 0.5G. The 0.5G thrust figure is our personal favourite detail because OPPO’s engineers apparently sat down, ran the numbers, and decided half a gravitational force is the precise amount of forward momentum a person needs in a light drizzle.
The umbrella is rated IP56, IP58, and IP59 because a single water resistance certification simply isn’t enough for this thing. Honestly, fair enough. It’s an umbrella. It should probably be waterproof.
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