Status: Hoax (art project)
Meet
Genpets, the cute, cuddly (kind of ugly) pets of the future, that come shrinkwrapped in plastic:
Genpets are living, breathing mammals. Bio-Genica is a Bioengineering Company that has combined, and modified existing DNA to create the Genpets lineup. Genpets are flesh and blood just like any other animal... Genpets are designed to be sold on retail store shelves, not traditional pet stores. This is why they are packaged in plastic.
It should be pretty obvious that Genpets aren't real, though the Genpets site is well designed. The Genpets site is the creation of artist
Adam Brandejs. Apparently he's actually been hanging these things in store windows. And the real-life versions of them look like they're alive, thanks to some robotics and circuitry. He writes:
Genpets seems to create a reaction wherever they go. While in the store window of Iodine Toronto, the shop owner began sleeping in the store as many nights, people would bang at the windows furiously. Some in protest of the small Bio-genetically engineered creatures trapped in plastic, some wanting to wake them up or buy them. Hordes of teens wanting a bioengineered pet met confused, baffled, or even shocked looks from parents. For an upcoming generation, through our own marketing techniques, life and the idea of life are quickly becoming viewed as disposable commodities. It’s easier to dismiss Genpets as a hoax or exaggeration when you’re not faced with a wall of them. The experience of a grainy photo is different than standing face to face with a breathing, sleeping Genpet.
(Thanks to Torbjørn Solstad for the link)
Comments
in addition animal rights?
playing God?
like these are new concepts... go look at any testing lab and you'll see stuff more disconcerting then a "genpet"
Why don't they just make it? Obviously its gotten a reaction from the public, whether that be good, or bad. I think we should recognise how far we've come today re. technology
they can't make them "for everyone" because we humans haven't created life out of plastic yet
and also because companies though close aren't going to produce things for the whims of people, especially shrink wrapped life forms
an artist made them
not mattel
Think well about it.....
outy Livso
P.S. Im naming mine Geraldo
Wow!! thats so cruel! would anyone teaches a kid to remove their pets' teeth if the pet bites!! would you do that to your dog!
I believe this website is desined by some psycology student working on some kind of semi research on peoples sadistic capabilities! Maybe to see how far would people go to be sadistic trowards an imaginary creature that they think is made by human so is destined to be turchered by human. Or if people care at all!
it makes me feel creepy
I was shocked. A simple google search shows its a hoax and yet one of the largest news shows in Mexico reports this as a new and real development in the genetics industry!! What a shame.
They fooled me for 2 minutes, while I read the webpage (which is very good).
But the lack of pictures of one of those alive, and the fact that is packed in a shrink wrap, gave it away.
As soon as I typed it in google to confirm it, the answer was reveal.
Very controversial art,
:roll:
child:the ugliest monkey in the univerese!?
mom:close, its a crime against nature :
ive never seen it out of packaging and never with is eyes open but i have seen it bob its head! but for this animal just to come out of the bloom, it dont even have a proper name! and the type of things they write on the web http://www.genpets.com , makes you wonder and it is true why would they advertise false stuff, they say it can urinate and that, and if u cut it or something it bleeds and that it walks and crawls i say,i say, That some one should test one out and see if it does wakeup, by the way is Genpets even in store i havent heard anything about it in uk,?
if this cute animal is real i think i would buy one because its better than it staying in that box lyke a toy!!! cruelty in a way but yh!!!
http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio/Genpets/What
official web if u cant be bothad 2 look scroll dwn
What are Genpets? You tell me.
Genpets seem to create a reaction wherever they go. While in the store window of Iodine Toronto, the shop owner began sleeping in the store as many nights, people would bang at the windows furiously. Some in protest of the small bio-genetically engineered creatures trapped in plastic, some wanting to wake them up or buy them. Hordes of teens wanting a bioengineered pet met confused, baffled, or even shocked looks from parents. For an upcoming generation, through our own marketing techniques, life and the idea of life are quickly becoming viewed as disposable commodities.
To dismiss Genpets as a 'hoax' would be to completely miss the point. The spirit of art is to create an illusion. Genpets is designed 'as is' to help the viewer ponder the idea a bit longer.
and.............................
If you
I think they are real because:
If they weren't alive and breathing that would be false advertisment and I know its art but it is still false advertising.Which could get the company heavily sued.(and plus i hope they are real even though they probably aren't) Oh by the way there is really a cloned cow out there I saw it! 0.o