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BY HOLLY FINN
On a smug November Monday—crisp, sunny, 68 degrees in San Francisco—I went kayaking. The bay shimmered as my paddle split the water, and I felt lucky, light, even a little artistic. Such athletic transcendence had nothing to do with me, though. It was my ride: a prototype origami kayak. Yup, origami. It isn't just for paper swans any more.
Inspired by the Japanese art of folding, Oru Kayak is the first completely foldable—and, crucially, unfoldable—vessel of its kind. One sheet of corrugated plastic morphs from a 33-by-29-inch (folded-up) square into a 12-foot-long (stretched-out) boat. In five minutes. As inventor Anton ...
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