Tech: Genetically Engineered Shoes

Right, for a start this story is dubious at best but is worth a mention because, on the miniscule chance it’s at all true, it’s insanely fucking cool. A Thai company called Rayfish has made the outlandish, to say the least, claim that it has successfully genetically engineered Stingrays to display any colouration or pattern imaginable on their skin by inserting genes from animals that carry said colourations/patterns into a fetal Stingray before allowing it to grow to a large enough size for them to ‘harvest’ it. So for what mighty aim are they carrying out such ethically questionable genetic modification? Discovering a cure for cancer? Developing the next level in military camouflage? Or maybe, just maybe, they are doing this to provide the world with fully customisable Stingray leather shoes… Yeah, that last ones right.