In an effort to bring the conventional mailbox into the 21st century, POSTCN01 employs email style to alert you when new tangible mail has arrived. It has sensors to track how many times the lid has been opened and displays the possible number of letters received on a digital display. The only problem is that nobody writes letters anymore, so this is basically a giant orange bill and solicitation collector.
Product Page: (?4,980, or about $55 via Oh Gizmo via Akihabara News)
Traditional letters and postcards are all but extinct thanks to e-mail. However, I would forgo technological progress this one time for a postcard that doubles as a flying balsa wood airplane. The only problem is that the way the post office works, this thing would probably arrive to you in splinters.
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