For anyone who's interested:
http://www.brandejs.ca/index.php

Website of the artist/sculptor behind genpets. (Whois is a wonderful thing.)

Genpets is believable, because it really isn't that far fetched at this point. Many now may find it morally repugnant, but that kind of revulsion has a way of evaporating. How many of your grandparents would have been repulsed by the idea of teenage girls getting elaborate tattoos? How many of your great-grandparents would have been repulsed by the idea of women indiscrimiately coloring their hair or enlarging their breasts through surgery?

Me, I'm hoping to get that rat-neuron powered toy fighter jet for Christmas. To me the amazing thing is not that they can wire miniature vat-grown rat brains into computers, or teach them to fly fighter planes, but the astonishing accuracy the rat brains achieve when strafing the neighborhood cats with nerf missiles!

• Jimdoria  ~@>@