Weirdest Toy! Oh My God

[Neoxter]

take a closer look :



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8PkIM1PHQc

this is sad ! but it sounds cool

[mr_j]

Originally Posted by Jess

Dont you think that they are now messing with nature??

when we started using vaccines to save our butts from malaria w sfayra we started messing with nature. no one complained then

but anyway who would want a toy that can bleed and die and starve? it's icky. I'd be ok with genetic manipulation if it was creating a specie of humans that don't die( there are immortal animals byu the way, just google the hydra genus ) or if they were treating cancer and creating organs but not this.

[Jess]

Originally Posted by mr_j

when we started using vaccines to save our butts from malaria w sfayra we started messing with nature. no one complained then

but anyway who would want a toy that can bleed and die and starve? it's icky. I'd be ok with genetic manipulation if it was creating a specie of humans that don't die( there are immortal animals byu the way, just google the hydra genus ) or if they were treating cancer and creating organs but not this.

My sis imagine she wants me to check the price and the full details

That S****

[mr_j]

well we already know what guys think of this:

we don't like having kids
we certainly don't want to have this

[SysTaMatIcS]

thats discusting , and this shouldnt be sold to little kids . the ones who did this should be hanged by their balls

[majousseh]

Guys, it's fake!!!!! this is a joke.
stop ur metaphysical theories and jump to another subject.

[Neoxter]

Originally Posted by majousseh

Guys, it's fake!!!!! this is a joke.
stop ur metaphysical theories and jump to another subject.

proof?

wat abt their website ? http://www.genpets.com/index.php

[Kain]

Originally Posted by majousseh

Guys, it's fake!!!!! this is a joke.
stop ur metaphysical theories and jump to another subject.

Eno halla2 7abakit ma3kon ma badkon tshoofo l wikipedia??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpet

[majousseh]

It's hard to break down 8 months of work into a digestable format, but lets have a go anyways. This also helps give an idea of why the starting price for a non-animatronic Genpet is $800, the material cost alone for each Genpet is about $200, and as you can see, there's a lot of work to assemble and build each sculpture.
Everything you see, times 19 units.
1. White layer base plastic

1a. Clay sculpt of base plastic 1b. Silicon mould of sculpt 1c. Positive plastic cast +
sanding. This part becomes
the mould for vacuum forming
thin plastic overtop of.
1d. Vacuum forming of styrene plastic and then cutting, finishing etc.

2. Creature


2a. Sculpt of creature 2b. 2 part silicon mould of
creature+ 2 part plaster
mother shell.
2c. foam latex or liquid latex casting of creature.
(Yeilds hollow versus not, depending on what sort of movement is desired)


3. sculpt of top plastic

3a. A sculpt is made over the
white layer to ensure a fast and perfect fit. (rough stage pictured)3b. A silicon mould is then taken of this combined piece. 3c. The positive plaster
is cast + hours &
hours of sanding.3d. The clear plastic is vacuum formed over the plaster mould and then cut/finished.

4. Circuitry

One main circuit for control of the animal, and one sub board for control of the heart monitor
4a. Design of circuits4b. Print process of 38 circuit boards
4c. Drilling of 1839 holes4d. Soldering and completion (heart monitors pictured)

5. micorchip programming.

In first and second year college we experimented with the basic stamp. it's an easy platform, but limited and costly, thus for genpets I moved onto normal, production grade chips. My friend Rob Sherwin taught me the basics and got me going.
5a. Program for controlling
fresh strip, heart monitor and
animatronics.5b. physical code dump onto blank chips. (test, recode as neccassary. repeat.)

6. Graphic design of packages

6a. Design (7 different colour versions)6b. Print + cut

7. Screen printing of LED mask

The LED mask sits UNDER the printed graphics and controls the flow of light coming through the paper.
Printing on acetate with a laser printer did not yeild dark enough prints and light came right through, so it required actual screen printing (forgot to take photos, but just imagine me and a giant metal frame, and green goo eveywhere).
This yeilds a much more professional appearance as letters and numbers illuminate instead of just a blur of light from behind the graphics.
7a. Design
7b. Print
7c. Cut, tape and place behind printed graphics.


8. cast misc plastic parts

sculpt + mould tube mount (coming soon...)

9. paint + makeup on creatures


9a. Base coat9b. Airbrush9c. Makeup detailsCrystal Pallister, a wonderful and brilliant makeup artist gave the Genpets their first breath of life. I must admit, it is the one part of the project I did not wholly do myself, but that's ok, becuase it made for an interesting second date.
Bruising is added around the wrists where the twist ties come into contact.
Hair is then added to armpits.


10. Animatronics + robotics

comming soon...

11. Final assembly.


Cutting a couple hundred twist ties (I think 250) to various lengths, glueing, etc.
There were of course other little things, like building the display unit, power supply setup, lcd stuff, dvd video, website, catalogue, I got my friend rob to help me blow wires through the tubing to power them and that alone took us an entire afternoon of looking like idiots. you get the point though. more extended info.
Vacuform Photos
Electronic Circuits
Conceptual Renderings
(More images coming soon)

How the design evolved (Wal-Mart + Medical)

Plastics
What if you were to take biomedical equipment and packaging out of the lab, and place it in Wal-Mart? How would a package with these inspirations look? The originating design goal was to create packaging that would give this feel. Thus, the packages are smooth and white, with simplistic biomedical graphics.
While I struggled with whether or not embedded LED’s would be pushing it (when we compare these packages too todays cardboard + plastic), from the standpoint of a large corporation the LED lights do not equate to much of an additional cost but make the packs far more exciting and eye catching. Even the packages with embedded LCD screens for video clips, prices are dropping so fast I wager we’ll be seeing them outside of current uses in the very near future.
Animatronics
While the pieces are animatronic, the movement for most units is subtle. Early on it became clear that having all 19 animals moving would look very busy and would be very difficult for me and my budget. Thus 12 are 'sleeping' with only their chests rising up and down, as the other units move and struggle.
This also made logical sense from the stand point of a company as having the animals asleep would be easier on the animal, as well as more acceptable to a consumer audience.
In the end, it forgoes any problems with animatronics that move jerky or unrealistically. Its accepted that the animals are asleep, and thus no one expects them to move a great deal, and the small bit of movement that they do have gets a far greater reaction and looks more realistic than I myself even expected.
Creature design
As for the bioengineered creatures themselves, Hollywood really screwed me over. Anything not mammalian generally looks alien. Reptile features? Alien. Tentacles or flippers? Alien. It limited me into making something that doesn’t look all that genetically altered. Ultimately, I chose to make something puppy like, but more like a toy doll. Logically speaking, how would a living toy be marketed? Why create a new market when you can use and extend an already proven one? Dolls are timeless, what better than a real living one that closely imitates a human child (that's the devils advocate speaking again...).


http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio/Genpets/How

AND BY THE WAY? the designer of this hoax is called "adam brandejs".

[TAREK®]

guys hal le3beh ma ejet 3a lebnen w u are making a big deal about it shu bena?