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Company Makes iPhone Wallpaper From Your DNA

by Matthew Zuras on October 13, 2009 at 04:19 PM

Chromosomal artwork has steadily become more common over the past few years, and French company Helys is now offering customized DNA wallpaper for the iPhone. For a whopping $147, you'll receive a DNA sample kit in the mail, take a swab to your gums, and send the specimens back to the lab. Within three to five weeks, an email will arrive containing your 320-by-480-pixel DNA portrait at the low-res of 160 dpi, much to the jealous cooing of your fellow nerds.

As the geekiest of vanity items, will DNA portraits soon supplant the shopping mall glamor shot? There's something peculiar and slightly egocentric about wanting to display your genetic material for all to see. But then again, most DNA pretty much looks the same to those of us who are not biologists, and some glamor shots are more open to ridicule than others.

Privacy is an obvious issue for would-be buyers. So, if you're a serial murderer on the lam, or just a hyper-paranoid, the-truth-is-out-there alien hunter, you'll be glad to know that Helys takes the security of your genetic code very seriously: "At the end of the process, your DNA is definitively destroyed by heating it at high pressure to 248° F." Yikes. [From: CNET, via Textually.org]

Tags: dna, geek chic, GeekChic, helys, iphone, top, wallpaper, weird

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