Got this through Agenda Inc and the Taipei Times.
Japan's second largest toymaker, Takara, will on Feb. 10 start nationwide marketing of the gift cans, which hold soil and the small plant bearing a message that sprouts up in about five days.
It offers six different messages, which are inscribed through a laser beam, with one side of the bean carrying words such as "I Love You" and "Good Luck!" and the other side a smiley face.
Known as "Ma Mail," a pun on the Japanese word for bean mame, the product can be used as "a new type of message card to convey your feelings to your loved ones," Takara said in a statement
Cool!