These inventive days you can buy a perfectly proper black umbrella adorned with a white London skyline along its edge. It is rather a costly affair because it reveals a magic and captivating ability to come out in color as soon as it is hit by raindrops. Full story

Of course you shudder when you are putting on your beloved best-looking – and expensive! – shoes and the dark fear of a possible shower crosses your mind… What a spoiler – to come back home wearing a sodden ugly mass on your feet! Full story

Cold weather helps develop our intellect, claim scientists of the University of New South Wales. They interviewed people on the streets and in supermarkets, asking them to do various intellectual tests. Scientists also considered the weather on days the interviews were held. Full story

Norway-based company SWIMS manufacturing modernistic and fashionable galoshes has launched its new line of slip-on galoshes for high heel shoes SWIMS City Slippers. Full story