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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.

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.

Eeewwwwwww!

They're kinda cute...
Except can you imagine telling your kid: "okay, here's your pet, but don't get too attached, it's programmed to die in one year from today..."

They also look kinda creepy with the way that they're displayed on the wall...Reminds me of a movie I once saw where they had humans strung up like that. (No, it wasn't the Matrix, either).

Woah, I want one. Seriously.

They sort of look like a skinned Gremlin, zip-tied to a piece if cardboard...

By far the best hoax website I've seen in ages! Absolutely brilliant! Bit uncomfortable about the technophobe subtext, but what the hey.

Starlizard, that's mean..."And remember, a GenPet is just for Christmas, not for life..."

The pictures of the kiddies getting one and being all excited are hilarious... personally, if I got one of those I would be like "wtf, thanks?!" because according to their website, if the creatures were real, they only played like infants. So basically, they eat, poop, don't make much sound, and crawl slightly.
Not very athletic, there.

Personally, I like my kitten who does flips to try and catch his toy and mews like crazy.
... I just don't like how he thinks... it's okay to wake me up via licking.

but I'd prefer that over a genpet licking.

it's not technophobic at all if you acctually read what he says...

"Secondly I’m not against bioengineering, I’m simply hesitant towards where and how and by whom the technology will be used. That’s what this art sums up. Read on if you’re curious."

sound slike he's just read some history and understands the world.

Incredible art for one guy to pull off. I don't want to try to imagine how much work that all was.

First off... I'd like to say that you've done a very good job making fun of the laws of human nature. Not only did you have me convinced, You also triggered me to have dozens of people repost bullitens on myspace, to have Genpets shut down. you did a good job on fooling me, and thousands of other people, and only to make us angry. I hope you're happy you fucking piece of shit.

RE: Spookidy
Your comment only proves the artist right. Had you done a google search and noticed it's art, you wouldn't have wasted anyones time. dumbass.

RE: Spookykid
If you were stupid enough to not check this out first before blabbing to your friends on myspace (Which is really crap anyway) then you deserve all you get.

Otherwise the whole things pretty cool. Spooked me out and reminded me how weird it would be to 'play God'.

Saying that I think some countries actually allow the patienting of dna now.

yeah i totally feel like an asshole now. I'm sorry for anyone i offended, including the artist. *walks away in shame*

I agree with everyone else on this. This is obviously a fake. The site uses all sorts of contradictory statements. It’s a living real living mammal, with feelings and a personality - but yet you are going to store it in a package like a toy, and make it affordable so that kids can replace it if there are accidents, or after the thing dies in a year? In what universe would a Biotech company use that as a marketing ploy? And there FAQ would be backed up with more scientific facts about the research, if these were actual scientists, with lots of fancy scientific words. Sort of like this one - http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/faqs.asp. Additionally, any company trying to market these things would have linked scientific articles regarding the facts of biotech research – not editorials warning people of the dangers of “Monkeying with Nature”. In my opinion, this is probably an anti-Biotech group trying to make a statement. Or some sort of sick hoax, but I choose to believe the first one. Besides, they can not claim to control the personality of a living thing. If not a robot, but a “living breathing mammal” then it would grow and develop its own personality, and there is nothing the scientists could do to chemically control that. Even if they were to house them in factory until they matured to the “fully grown size” they are intending to sell, it doesn’t explain how the creators claim to control the behavioral tendencies of what is supposed to be a live being.

I think if they where real i would be able to find a picture of one alive, somewhere on the web!

This is... weird. Alex has Genpets clearly labelled a hoax/art project: there is no uncertainty about it and some commenters above have even quoted the artist. Yet still there are commenters feeling the need to 'prove' it's a hoax - like SpongeBob and bessy above. Why? It's like carefully and logically explaining that the joke you just told about the Englishman, the Irishman, and the American is obviously not true because Superman doesn't exist. Weird.

I don't know. Uncertainty? I see it more as the commenters are wondering how anyone could have believed it to be true in the first place, rather then trying to re-prove it as a hoax.

They are dead cute even if it´s a hoax,it nearly made me weep to see that cute little thing trapped in plastic like that

I'm not too sure what to think. I have heard that they are real, i have also heard that they are robots. If they are just robots why would the company go through all the trouble of advertising "Genpets". And taking the risk of being sued for false advertisement? Because they did say that they are real breathing living things. I was going to buy one until i heard that they are fake and now I'm hearing all this controverse abnout "Genpets".

That would actually make a really good furby-like toy. Only twice as creepy and even more prone to be lit on fire or put into microwaves by their owners.

Magicking4489: They weren't distributed, so no one lost any money.