Firstly, our new canopy shape covers an umbrella frame made to accommodate a standard canopy shape. This means the fibreglass ribs are now bent downwards, which creates a natural spring in the frame - potential energy. Potential energy is the energy stored and used in a bow to fire its arrow.

To use this stored energy as efficiently as we can, we have added the halo® thread. This is the only exotic material used on the umbrella. This is a super strong, continuous and inextensible thread running around the canopy edge, threaded through the tips. The halo® is the same thread sailmakers use to stitch high-end sails together, that has; very high load baring, anti-corrosive, and anti-chafe properties. This allows for the transfer of energy across to the other side of the umbrella. When the wind (a force) is trying to turn one side of the umbrella inside out (which is what happens in slow motion), the springs on that side become weaker, but over on the other side, the ribs that are being bent even more are exponentially developing a stronger spring. So via the halo® thread, the bent ribs pull the canopy on the other side back in, keeping the canopy from inverting. It is this method that allows the umbrella to resist the wind. Without the halo® this energy would dissipate all over the canopy and the umbrella would become defective. Channelling the energy from the ribs through the halo® is what makes the umbrella work.

The halo® will also eliminate the failure of the canopy-to-tip stitching that commonly occurs, which is another big problem with umbrellas today.