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
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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