Designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from the Industrial Design program at Syracuse University came up with this concept called Google Envelopes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to map the course of mail and how it can tell a story? They came up with Google Envelopes, which can be sent through G-Mail itself. It’s only a concept, but totally viable and something people can immediately understand.
Designers: Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik
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This would be great for us who travel! They could see where we sent it from
I tried it myself. Envelope looks way too cool.
how exactly did you do it yourself? I would like to try this for sending out things to clients.
Buy a printer.
Find the map you like on google maps.
Print the map.
Make an envelope out of the print.
Put in the things to your clients.
Send it.
I would use this all the time if it was available… seriously! What a good idea! I know they made this as a joke for one of their April Fools, but here’s hoping Google actually tries it for fun!
Very clever, Google wants to spread in all the dimensions…..but its cool idea…i love to use this service.
–Richard
I loved the concept. Google is so innovative.Would love to join it one day. 🙂
we came from Post-to-Email and now going Email-to-Post. 🙂
Best of luck with this boys, but I gotta tell ya – Back in ’02 I lost everything I had on a similar plan, where Navajo smoke signals were sent up a users chimney by pressing Alt + S.
Sad so many residenses dont have chimneys any more.
I love the design of the envelope. but, it is sorta waste, isnt it?
Uhm . . . where is sthe barcode?
the PO will write on the envelope if they dont do it themselves.
Umm, what barcode? The PO always prints on their own barcodes at the sorting facility. As far as I know that has never been the responsibility of the sender to print a barcode on their envelopes.
Wanna have this.
Greetz from Berlin, Germany
kinda cool, but i don’t see why i would ever use it
It would be great to include a perfumed envelope paper 🙂
Need, want, and must habe those
this is the dumbest idea ever. if it wasn’t google droids, it would get < 0 press.
IN LOVE <3
neeeed.
The French Post Office already offers a service like this… but without the nifty envelope 🙁
http://www.laposte.fr/Particulier/Profitez-de-nos-services-en-ligne/Envoi-de-Lettres-Recommandees-Electroniques
If this was real I’d send some of these to a friend of mine in Topeka!
You could also track the path of an email through physical cables & routers… generate a map visible upon receipt? That would be cool.
I love it. But how to I turn feature on???
Read the article. It says it’s only a concept, meaning it’s not a real feature yet.
Would love to just be able to print an envelope like this through google maps. No need for the gmail connection – just allow me to format 2 address in Maps and then allow for a print envelope option. Simple and fun!
This. Exactly this.
I know Google isn’t going to do this because, quite honestly, it’s a waste of money and paper to send an email as a postal letter, and the logistics would probably be stupidly expensive…
But I send snail mail all over the world anyway, and it would be nice if we could do this ourselves as long as we had envelopes and a printer.
Would be even cooler if the envelopes were made from recycled hemp paper, that has already been smoked once.
Nah, it’s a genius and beautiful idea. Google should extend it to other such dynamic or static designs, then the increased traffic would save jobs at USPS and allow them to continue delivering mail on Saturdays.
Gmail (electronic and snail) should also work with images and tablet-like script, I’d prefer to send my real writing rather than my words in some computer font.
What if the person lives in another country and you can’t drive the letter there?
Have you ever tried getting driving directions from the US to AUS? It will include thousands of miles by KAYAK! True!
Thanks Patreek. I never realized that. LOL
Haha I did that by accident once in the Google Maps app on my Android. I punched in a search for a place I was going to and it picked up a motorcycle pub on the east coast of the U.S. and told me to Kayak there via Japan and Hawaii.
Wicked, this I cannot wait for 🙂
@mgpwr