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Feedback: Sneakers made of stingrays

17 July 2013

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Sneakers made of stingrays

RECENTLY Feedback was wondering about a shop in the UK town of Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, offering “Animal Designer Accessories” (4 May). Could this allow us to design an animal to our own specifications, we wondered. Sasha Frank alerts us to just such an example in the wonderful virtual world of the web, at .

This offers you the chance to “grow your own sneaker”. Specify your pattern online and the website promises to genetically engineer a stingray,…

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