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Japan's toy maker Takara employee Nozomi Saeki displays
bean plants with messages such as 'Good luck,' sprouted from a
can. The plants also bloom to read 'I love
you.'(AFP) | |
Japanese people who are too shy to work up the courage to say "I Love
You," or at least want a little surprise, have a new option: a bean plant
that sprouts to read a special message.
Japan's second largest toy maker Takara will on February 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 "ma-me," 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.
Another toy maker, Tomy, offers its own version of message beans set in
a calcium-made white egg that "hatches" soon after it is put in water.
"You can have the fun of fortune telling as you don't know what message
will come out until the bean sprouts," Tomy said, adding the egg would
also be suitable for a gift as this is the Chinese zodiac year of the
cock.
The bean cracks open through the egg and shows French-language messages
such as "Avec toi!" ("With you!") and "C'est la vie!" ("That's life!") on
one side and Japanese words of encouragement on the other.
The bean splits open to grow true leaves which usually cling to the
stem for about a month, Tomy said. The egg will go on sale on February 24.
Both Takara and Tomy aim at sales of one million units for the initial
year, with the price tag set at 714 yen and 798 yen (6.85 and 7.65
dollars) respectively.
(Agencies) |
那些過(guò)于羞澀而沒(méi)有勇氣說(shuō)出“我愛(ài)你”，或者想要一點(diǎn)驚喜的日本人現(xiàn)在有了新的選擇：一種發(fā)芽后帶有特殊信息的豆類(lèi)植物。
2月10日起，日本第二大玩具制造商Takara將把這種禮品罐推向全國(guó)市場(chǎng)，罐內(nèi)有土和一小株帶有信息的植物，大約5天后發(fā)芽。
這種豆類(lèi)植物能夠提供6種不同的信息，通過(guò)激光把各種信息刻在豆芽上，豆芽的一側(cè)刻有“我愛(ài)你”、“祝好運(yùn)”之類(lèi)的話(huà)語(yǔ)，另一側(cè)則是一個(gè)笑臉。
這種產(chǎn)品名為Ma
Mail，是日語(yǔ)中豆子一詞ma-me（發(fā)音相同）的雙關(guān)語(yǔ)。Takara公司在一份聲明中說(shuō)，這種產(chǎn)品可以作為“一種新的消息卡片，向你愛(ài)的人傳情達(dá)意”。
另一家玩具制造商Tomy也推出了自己的“信息豆”，這種信息豆被放置在鈣制白色雞蛋里，一放到水中不久便會(huì)“孵化”。
Tomy公司說(shuō)：“你可以體驗(yàn)猜測(cè)的樂(lè)趣，因?yàn)槎棺影l(fā)芽之前你不知道里面會(huì)是何種信息?！绷硗饨衲晔侵袊?guó)十二生肖中的雞年，雞蛋是恰到好處的禮物。
豆子從雞蛋中破殼而出，一側(cè)刻有諸如Avec toi!（在一起）或C'est la
vie!（這就是生活）這樣的話(huà)語(yǔ)，另一側(cè)則是用日語(yǔ)寫(xiě)著勵(lì)志的話(huà)語(yǔ)。
Tomy公司說(shuō)，豆子破殼而出后會(huì)長(zhǎng)出真正的葉子，通常能夠依附在莖上生長(zhǎng)約1個(gè)月。這種雞蛋將從2月24日起對(duì)外出售。
Takara和Tomy公司第一年的銷(xiāo)售目標(biāo)都是100萬(wàn)件。產(chǎn)品的價(jià)格分別是714日?qǐng)A（6.85美元）和798日?qǐng)A(7.65美元)。
（中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)站譯） |
Updated: 2005-02-11 08:24