I just came across this idea of a beau­ti­ful origami-like San Fran­cisco travel guide that folds mag­i­cally to the size of a credit card. I’ve only been to San Fran­cisco once but I love the city and really want to visit it again some day. Looks like this could be a super use­ful prod­uct I can use when the time comes. Here are some of its features.

• Ruth­lessly edited to present only the most stand­out places in the city. We chose restau­rants run by per­fec­tion­ists who really care about their food, and truly under­stand hospitality.
• In addi­tion to restau­rants, the guide will tell you about hid­den bars, the best view in the entire bay area, walk­ing tours, under­ground din­ner clubs, and a pub­lic park 15 sto­ries up.
• Printed on a sin­gle sheet of Tyvek, an untear­able paper-like mate­r­ial that’s unaf­fected by water, and then folded up using a tech­nique orig­i­nally devel­oped for satel­lite solar panels.

The TOC Guide is folded accord­ing to a tech­nique devel­oped by Koryo Miura in the 1970’s at Tokyo Uni­ver­sity, for use in the deploy­ment of solar cells. It is said that Miura was inspired by folds in nature, includ­ing the wrin­kles in the brows of old peo­ple, and the way moun­tain ranges fold into landscapes.

Since a map that has been Miura folded has only two sta­ble states (fully unfolded, fully folded) it’s impos­si­ble to mis­fold, and there’s no fum­bling to get it folded back up.

It’s on Kick­starter and it deserves your back­ing if you like Origami and San Francisco.