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Genpets (shrinkwrapped pets)
Status: Hoax (art project)
image 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)
Posted By: Alex | Date: Wed Jun 14, 2006 | Permalink | Total Comments: 53
Category: Animals, Websites, Technology
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They are LIVE Orcs like Lord of the Rings :(((((
it makes me feel creepy
Posted by Van Helsing  on  Mon Aug 11, 2008  at  11:32 PM
that is sick u dumb noobs
Posted by the bEst  in  safsa  on  Sat Sep 06, 2008  at  09:31 PM
These will haunt my dreams for months to come.
Posted by Tripp  on  Sun Sep 14, 2008  at  07:52 PM
I don't beleive any one any more, not museum of Hoaxes not even genpets. I hate you are all liers , go to hell with your ugly speechless toys
Posted by Hadeel  in  Jordan  on  Sat Oct 25, 2008  at  11:26 PM
I was watching the mexican news this morning and the did a very small and informal thing about the genpets, AS IF THEY WERE REAL!!
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.
Posted by Hector T  in  Austin, TX  on  Tue Nov 04, 2008  at  09:53 AM
Yes what a shame, I think they try to see people reaction to it & how they feel about it, as if we are (Lab Rats)
Posted by Hadeel  on  Tue Nov 04, 2008  at  09:49 PM
You people took this too seariusly.
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,
Posted by Peppy  on  Tue Dec 02, 2008  at  12:05 PM
Cute????? This thing is CUTE??? It's creepy, gross, ugly and totally unatural. And even creepier to think that tomorrows generations think that life is worth nothing. And did we not learn anything from "The Fly?" All this bioengineering, cloning, playing god, etc. is just going to bite us in the butt!
Posted by gaby O  in  mexico  on  Mon Dec 08, 2008  at  02:58 PM
people really don't read and just follow their emotion without realizing that it's not true and the website is just a marketing ploy.
Posted by kwatog  in  PH  on  Sun Jan 11, 2009  at  09:43 PM
omg people, this is a giant HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX.
Posted by Snaffer  in  Belgium  on  Tue Mar 03, 2009  at  01:09 PM
omg Snaffer, someone should tell the webmaster so he can put an appropriate label on the post - maybe something like 'Hoax (art project)'. He could even add something to the text... maybe something like 'It should be pretty obvious that Genpets aren't real' or 'the real-life versions of them look like they're alive, thanks to some robotics and circuitry'?

rolleyes
Posted by outeast  on  Wed Mar 04, 2009  at  12:04 AM
mom:know what that is baby?
child:the ugliest monkey in the univerese!?
mom:close, its a crime against nature :
Posted by zoey  in  oh.  on  Fri Jul 17, 2009  at  01:18 PM
OMG!!! IM BLIND!!!! THE HORROR!!!! I,I, SEE THE LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!THERE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by kitty  in  oh.  on  Fri Jul 17, 2009  at  01:24 PM
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