June 19th, 2006
Betta Don’t get a Genpet
Posted by
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Betta Don'ts
Genpets are disgusting little LIVING creatures that are genetically built to order. The only redeeming trait these horrid things have is that you could brutally beat them without remorse because they are not one of God’s creations.
on June 20th, 2006 at 1:14 am
If it’s living, betta dont beat it!!!
That’s so strange! I don’t think we’ll ever see these on shelves. It’s too freaky…
on June 24th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
I don’t think they are living.
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It says something about plastic and rubber. I highly doubt that this thing is real. Besides, they might be “disgusting little LIVING creatures.” But, of course, that’s your opinion. I think it’s just another toy for people to sell and enjoy.
It does seem a bit strange though. I think it’d be interesting to buy one and see what it can do. Of course, I won’t beat it. I’m not some kinda monster, and it’s not like everyone who plans on buying it, also plans to destroy every fiber of it’s being.
on June 24th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Good points, Kathy. I think our new focus is to make sure these things don’t start reproducing because that could have cataclysmic effects on our planet’s ecology.
on June 25th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
But that’s the thing, KB. I don’t think they’re real. It’s just seems like another toy to me. So, if people wanna buy it, I say, let them.
on June 26th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
How could anyone even think this is real , it’s just a joke!!!
on June 29th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
These are real and are living, they are genitcally egineered from DNA of real living things. The casing of the genpet feeds the GenPet and protien to keep it hibernating until u open in.
Sick….
on June 29th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Thank you, Bruce, for uncovering the truth. I am curious about the wake-up cycle that will occur once the suspended animation phase has ended. No doubt there will be numerous deaths upon wake up but statistics of this nature are missing from the web site. What does one do with the carcass then? Hopefully with revision B the GenPet packaging will double as a disposal container for the bodies and use some kind of chemical dematerialization bath.
on June 30th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Dude, they’re Furby’s with a clever marketing angle–that’s all.
on July 1st, 2006 at 1:39 am
damn animal activists. They don’t exist, they’re clay models created by some artist. Look around a bit more.
on July 3rd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Yeah… clearly hell ass fake… reguardless of how credible the site may seem… just look at it.
on July 6th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Of coure it may look a little fake, the genetic manufacturing industry is still just beginning.
on July 7th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
The point of these is to show the horrors of genetic engineering now before we actually get to the point when these things can be a reality.
Unfortunately, of the people who believed this was real, many wanted to buy one RIGHT NOW.
Oh brave new world…
on July 10th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Ok Guys, I was curious so I did some research and the whole thing is a hoax designed to get you to think. Check out this website and you will see what I mean.
http://www.brandejs.ca/index.php
Go to the website and start reading it will explane everything.
Kathy has it right they are not real at all.
on July 11th, 2006 at 6:00 am
you guys are douchebags, read shit before posting your retard stuff on the internet.
on July 11th, 2006 at 9:02 am
from that site:
“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.”
It sounds like the false idea this is a hoax was just created to quell the growing outrage coming from the pro-life types and misguided humanists.
on July 14th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
This kind of tech is at least a couple of hundred years away. Remember when the sheep Dolly was cloned? World wide news right? How come this is so quiet? Where is the scientific community on this issue? No where… because these things do not exist: except as foam rubber and gears.
The medical implications alone would make these things a miracle cure. We would be able to grow organs for donation, stem cells for nerve damage victims. If they were real. This is the real world, not the jetsons and jurassic park is only in the imagination. Creative marketing and gullibility on the part of the consumer that’s all this is.
on July 19th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
genpets are the next generation in pets they are better than cats and dogs and i will be the first in line to buy one the day they go on sale and if anyone beats them they desearve to be beat
on September 17th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
on September 17th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
on September 17th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
i did some reaserch heres what i found out gen-pets were actully art works-in this case plastic and latex sculptures [including circuitry and robotics ]created by 24-year old canadian commercial artist Adam Brandejs the whole point of gen pets is to get the public thinking
of bioengineering and how they might feel about were science might lead us however when gen-pets were exhibited in a toronto strore front they did have a reaaction
on September 25th, 2006 at 3:07 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpet
Look, the guys that actually took the time to look this stuff up are right. As cute as they are, they’re fake. This was an exhibit to get the public thinking about the retail industry in relation to how we treat pets. Imagine these genpets as a real thing. They’re kept dormant, packaged, and sold in stores like toys. That’s basically what we do to pets. Cats and dogs are beaten by owners, why are people freaking out about the idea of these things being beaten as well? What makes these fake “pets” any different than the pets that are already real? This exhibit obviously raises questions about genetic engineering and how it will be used in the future, but it was moreso intended to evoke ideas about capitalism and the bottom-line…PROFIT. Greed and money mean more now to people than creating life and deciding when it will end, how the being will act, and whatever other effects genetic engineering could induce. Even from the comments above, you can tell that people are willing to buy ANYTHING. The idea behind the project is to make people think about why we are so willing to spend money on something, even if we don’t agree with it or are even afraid of it.
on October 30th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Im a little confused if these things are real or not. I would like to see one,or cut one open to see whats inside
on December 3rd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Mark, dont be gullable. You might as well go to your local toystore and cut open a mechanical animal because thats all you’ll find in this Gen-pet thing. ITS A HOAX!!!
The Gen-pet site really needs to add a disclaimer before they get into some real legal trouble.
on February 24th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Omg people who made them r F###ed up!!!!!!!
on March 6th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
on March 28th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
hmmm…the pictures and everything “ARE” fake but technology is improving now a days, and if they ever come out with these things it will cause a huge public disput. I believe this is kind of wrong, but technology will continue to improve and the day something like this happens, i hope the world is ready for the consequences >_>;
on March 28th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
It’s brilliant, hilarious — and somewhat scary. Artist Adam Brandejs has constructed the perfect biotech company website look-alike, complete with product catalogue, service & support pages, etc.
The company’s major product is the Genpet, a “pre-packaged, bioengineered pet”, not a toy or a robot, but a “living, breathing” genetically engineered animal with “fully functional heart rate monitor and Fresh Strip to better gauge the state of each pet while it lies in its hibernation state”. It has in-built feelings, of course.
The FAQs-page tells prospective customers that the little creatures breathe and shit and form strong personal bonds with their care-taker. They surely feel pain, but “have limited vocal chords so they will not create a large amount of noise when disturbed”. A Genpet will normally not bite, but if it does, one can buy a extra Tooth Remover Kit.
Adam Brandejs Genpet raises lots of disturbing questions about the future of biotechnology. It’s one of the most humorous and intelligent artistic comments to postgenomics I’ve seen for a long time — neither naïvely endorsing biotech development, nor against its future possibilites.
By the way, Genpets come in two basic versions, one with a one-year life span, the other with a three-year life span (with different price tags, of course) – an oblique commentary to the Nexus 6 generation of replicants in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (who had a four-year life span).
This is the truth about these so called “Genpets” READ IT ALL and maybe this will answer ur questions
on July 5th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Anyone else just see this as a Chucky doll, but only an animal…?
on August 4th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
It’s latex, dumbasses.
on August 7th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I don’t know what to belive, so many things people are saying. I don’t know wht emotion i’m feeling right now. All I can do is wait and see I guess.
on October 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
CAROL said,
on March 6th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
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on December 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Why should they lie to millions of children? I live in Iran. They told a lot of children in Iran they were real and were coming to stores.
BTW it’s not possible. They live and kinda have feelings but inside they’re like robots. (Metal and feelings don’t match!)
on December 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Why should they lie to millions of children? I live in Iran. They told a lot of children in Iran they were real and were coming to stores.
BTW it’s not possible. They live and kinda have feelings but inside they’re like robots. (Metal and feelings don’t match!)
on December 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Morons. Do even a small amount of research. It is a hoax. Can you even google something for 2 minutes before puking out retarded comments about something you nothing about?
on December 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
GUYS!! I AM SO CONFUSED!!!! IS IT REAL OR NOT??
Many sites/ppl are saying they are real but others are saying they arent!! I wish I could see one myself!! I also wish I knew someone that had one so I could see if they are real or not!!!!!!!!!!
on December 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
GUYS!! I AM SO CONFUSED!!!! IS IT REAL OR NOT??
Many sites/ppl are saying they are real but others are saying they arent!! I wish I could see one myself!! I also wish I knew someone that had one so I could see if they are real or not!!!!!!!!!!
on December 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I think genpets are just one of the many new types of “toys” wears going to be seeing in the near future.
on February 5th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
ok. i accidentally came across these damned things. At first, I was horrified. Then, I was amazed. The more I read, the more I wanted one. Then, as I’m about to pull out my credit card, I realize 1. this site is poorly poorly made and had it been a real bioengineering co. that had founded it, it would have been done correctly and 2. there are about a million sites proving these things openly to be a hoax. Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re real, but I truly would want one.. One other thing that makes me believe that it is just a hoax is this: the artist explained at an exhibition of his work that his point of GenPets was merely to get the public thinking about the concept of bioengineering and how they feel about where that science may take us..
on March 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
everybody says these things will never be created or sold and it is to grab peoples attentions, this samething was said while they were creating sa monkeys now almost every kid has them they said you cant make the sea monsters and they have been created, everybody thinks that this is a joke well i say, ” welcome to technology” if you think this is a joke then you should think that the glowing animals are fake too research you will find alot about them
on March 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
hahahaha If i can beat one of those things just because ITS NOT ONE OF GOD’S CREATION….I can surely beat up any race of dog to death. why? because certainly MEN created those races. French poodles were made by god? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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on April 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
look people, there is a chance that these things can be alive but the chance of that is small….very small….anyway my thought on this percent wise is 30% chance that they are real and living……but who knows? not any of us…because we dont have enough facts…..enough said…..
on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I hope any one who really blieves these are real, feel dumb, because if you look them up and DO RESEARCh you will find that, like most people, the creater can’t help but to brag about his work
“Each Genpet model is hand crafted and hand painted and individually numbered out of 19. Yes I ‘only’ made 19, any more and I’d of been at this for years. ”
~http://www.brandejs.ca/store