Google Offering to Snail Mail a Holiday Card for Free

Google's getting into the spirit of the season and offering a neat freebie: To mail out a old-fashioned holiday postcard for you. All you have to do is fill out the recipient's info, add a message, and select a card. Basically that's about 44 cents for the stamp and maybe about a buck for the card in savings in exchange for the pleasure of handwriting a nice note. [Google via Neatorama]

About Three or So People Rejoice as Twitter Updates Its Mobile Website

Does anyone actually use Twitter's mobile website instead of an app anymore? It's always been accessible at mobile.twitter.com, but now it actually looks nicer and has nearly all of the features of the regular page. That's lovely and all, but I doubt most will ever see it. [TUAW]

One Pain-Inducing Cellphone Strap

I'm fine with the fact that some people like to put silly charms on their cellphones, but I just can't figure out how they'd avoid injury with one like this. [Deal Extreme via Nerd Approved via Dvice]

One-Touch Toothpaste Dispenser for Lazy Squeezers

Squeezing toothpaste tubes is so tough that I don't know how people do it. I'm just thankful that there's a six dollar gadget out there to do the work for me. [Giz Fever via ShinyShiny via Uber Gizmo]

In her first declaration, Kaoru explained that her son Koki disappeared in the park:

I brought Koki to the park after he came back from school shortly after 3 p.m. He went missing while I was in a restroom that is about 20 meters away from large play equipment in the athletic playground area of the park.

The police conducted a search using the GPS in Koki's cellphone—which also has the strap that the police think is the crime weapon—finally finding the body, which the mother refused to see. After further questioning, she admitted she was the killer. [Mainichi and Yomiuri via TokyoMango]

The portable subway strap is designed to show female passengers that your hands are occupied —thereby reducing your chances of being falsely accused of groping. Apparently, the 525 yen ($5) product has proven quite popular with commuters. Although the train above seems to have a much more awkward situation brewing. [Product Page via Pink Tentacle]

[Product Page via Gear Diary via Sci Fi Tech]

Product Page [Rakuten via Tokyo Mango]

Product Page [Rakuten via Plastic Bamboo]

For about $9, you can get your own bra or panties to attach to your cellphone. It's just a gimmick, and it's tiny, so it's probably the only lingerie your wife will permit you to have that doesn't belong to her. Unless, of course, you've been fucking a midget on the side. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Strapya via Tokyo Mango]

Most of these phones are Japanese, but we do see a couple RAZRs and possibly some Sony Ericssons in there too. All of them actually slide and flip—just like the real thing. No real point here; they just look cool. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Strapya]

It's a miniature chalkboard complete with chalk and eraser so you can doodle or write little notes to yourself while you're out. Need to take down a number? Write it on the chalkboard. Just be careful when you put it into your pants or you'll have a pocketful of chalk and no date for the weekend. Sounds like all four years of high school and parts of college for us. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Rakuten via Tokyo Mango]

Unfortunately, the only phones that can be charged with this thing are from FOMA and SoftBank—both only available in Japan—but we're sure somebody can come up with something similar for US phones. Get to work, crazies! – Jason Chen

Product Page [Rakuten via Plastic Bamboo]

Beyond just being fun for the whole family, dying the straps will make it easy to tell which one your kids' friends slobbered all over and which one you keep in a drawer just for you. And at $4 each, it's pretty cheap as well. Then again, if just having a Wii isn't getting your wife into gaming, perhaps you've got no hope after all. – Jason Chen

Project Page [Instrutables via Kotaku]

You can buy different amounts of beads depending on your needs—but get enough and you can have a Japanese Mardis Gras anywhere. Politely asking women to take off their tops is how they do it. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Rakuten via Gearfuse via Techie Diva]

Essentially a giant mood ring, the Aura Monitor changes between eight different colors depending on your mood. So yes, it's just as useless. But it does look pretty cool as a cellphone strap. – Jason Chen

Solid Alliance does something crazy [Akiba News via Uber Gizmo]

The other feature, if cellphone straps could have features, is that the strap detaches and separates into a pendant and that other part. The non-pendant part. We'll stick to poop. – Jason Chen

Bulgari Cell Phone Straps [Sybarites]

Hell, if you can carry a gun this way, why not a cellphone? We certainly can't think of a reason why not. – Jason Chen

Product Page [HTL Wireless via Tokyo Mango]

In the picture above, the new straps with their rounded plastic nubs on the ends are lined up on the left, and the old one whose business end vaguely resembles the Nintendo Wii console is on the right. Get the new ones, butterfingers! Or, you could just hold on tighter to the damn controller. Heck, Babe Ruth never let his bat fly out of his hands, did he? Huh? Just an example. – Charlie White

The New, New Wii Strap [Kotaku]