{"id":16759,"date":"2026-08-13T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:47:29","slug":"ori-umbrella-that-never-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16759","title":{"rendered":"Ori Umbrella – that never existed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ori<\/a> had this interesting idea for an umbrella that folds up like the Miura fold in origami to fit inside a tiny wand<\/a>. As someone that tried this style of folding pattern (Miura fold<\/a>), I personally wondered what material they could be using to consistently get a conical version of this to work. The folding pattern is pretty amazing, but is a little fiddly and prone to crumpling if you don’t apply the collapsing force equally at the edges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dug deeper and there was never any video or even picture of the real product – only CG rendered versions. The store page also now appears to be down<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess they couldn’t figure out how to do it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ori had this interesting idea for an umbrella that folds up like the Miura fold in origami to fit inside a tiny wand. As someone that tried this style of folding pattern (Miura fold), I personally wondered what material they could be using to consistently get a conical version of this to work. The folding pattern is pretty amazing, but is a little fiddly and prone to crumpling if you don’t apply the collapsing force equally at the edges. I…<\/p>\n

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