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Thailand-based shoe company Rayfish Footwear is offering brilliantly patterned custom sneakers made from stingray skin. But instead of simply etching the wacky, colorful designs on the shagreen - that's stingray hide - after removing the skin, a group of scientists will instead etch said designs right onto the DNA of the fish.
Using a process known as bio-customization, Rayfish Footwear combines patterns and colors from dozens of ray species, resulting in a transgenic designer stingray like no other.
Rayfish Footwear claims to have perfected the genetic modification of stingrays, which has been met with both skepticism and disgust from PETA and bioengineering scientists.
Today, you can create your own design on Rayfish Footwear's website via an online template offering 29 patterns that scientists can actually grow on your doomed stingray.
Because they are still perfecting their methods, Rayfish Footwear is soft launching their product with a series of design contests. Log on to their site to experiment with their design template, and enter your creations into a shoe-designing contest. Each winner will get a free pair of shoes.
Rayfish Footwear is set to officially launch later this year, at which time the shoes will start at $1,800.
Rayfish Footwear
Thailand
web site | e-mail
Thailand-based shoe company Rayfish Footwear is offering brilliantly patterned custom sneakers made from stingray skin. But instead of simply etching the wacky, colorful designs on the shagreen - that's stingray hide - after removing the skin, a group of scientists will instead etch said designs right onto the DNA of the fish.
Using a process known as bio-customization, Rayfish Footwear combines patterns and colors from dozens of ray species, resulting in a transgenic designer stingray like no other.
Rayfish Footwear claims to have perfected the genetic modification of stingrays, which has been met with both skepticism and disgust from PETA and bioengineering scientists.
Today, you can create your own design on Rayfish Footwear's website via an online template offering 29 patterns that scientists can actually grow on your doomed stingray.
Because they are still perfecting their methods, Rayfish Footwear is soft launching their product with a series of design contests. Log on to their site to experiment with their design template, and enter your creations into a shoe-designing contest. Each winner will get a free pair of shoes.
Rayfish Footwear is set to officially launch later this year, at which time the shoes will start at $1,800.
Rayfish Footwear
Thailand
web site | e-mail
