Chet at his Science Musings blog has a good piece of satire on the story of iGEM 2010 (SciTechStory: iGEM: Proselytizing for synthetic biology). Here’s a sample:

June 11, 2012. Hasbro-Mattel, the toy division of Monsanto Universal, today announced a product that will likely be found under many a Christmas tree later this year: The Little Creator Bioconstruction Set.

It’s not cheap, but this spiffy kit lets kids create microbes that they design themselves — living organisms, unlike any that exist in nature. “The day of Tinker Toys and Erector sets is past,” said a spokesperson for Hasbro-Mattel. “No more static or even motorized constructions. With the Little Creator Bioconstruction Set a kid can build things that metabolize, interact with the environment, move about, reproduce.”

[Source: Science Musings]

He notes, as should everyone, that this is NOT very far from being technically feasible. As he also noted in 2000, this topic still hasn’t received the debate it warrants.