It’s your new bioengineered best friend

Your old household pet suddenly looks very 20th century with the advent of Genpets, these adorable, impish mini-Golems. They come in two “core configurations,” one-year lifespan and three-year lifespan, as well as seven different personality types. It may seem cruel to wrap them in plastic, but they don’t care. “Each package has an embedded microchip that monitors and controls the state of the Genpet while it is asleep waiting for you to take it home,” says the Web site.