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The New Tamagotchi Is a Welcome Escape From the Everyday Dread of Adulting

Just be sure to keep batteries nearby because this thing eats through them like candy.

Other Gadgets Florence Ion Jul 15

Tamagotchi’s Smartwatch Is Way Cuter Than Apple’s

Why keep your virtual pet in your pocket when you can wear it on your wrist?

Gadgets Florence Ion Jun 17

How I Hacked My Tamagotchi, Cheated Death, and Became a God

I can’t explain why I adopted a virtual pet while also navigating the wild world of new parenthood, though maybe it has something to do with our species’ penchant for falling back on the familiar. The pandemic added to the chaos of life with a newborn, so I found myself drawn to anything nerdy and…

Gadgets Florence Ion May 7

The New Tamagotchi’s Camera Lets You Take Photos With Your Virtual Pet Before It Dies of Neglect

Years before smartphones, kids’ preferred digital distraction was the Tamagotchi. The tiny gadgets were revived back in 2017, and have since evolved into more sophisticated handhelds. The latest version, the $60 Tamagotchi Pix, has a digital camera that introduces some novel interactivity and lets kids snap selfies with their virtual pets. Bandai America resurrected the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 21

The Mandalorian Goes Samurai, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the latest and greatest in wallet-integrity-threatening toys. This week, The Mandalorian serves up a few rad figures, Thanos brings his Black Order to the fore in a new Marvel Legends box set, and now you can tell Hello Kitty what to do with your very own…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook Oct 9

Catwoman Gets a Glorious Animated Series Action Figure, and More Purrfect Toys

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest and greatest bits of plastic threatening our wallets. This week: Lego gets its May the 4th celebrations on by giving the worst Star Wars ship a lovely set, Neon Genesis Evangelion Tamagotchis make us question things we’d really rather not, and somehow, there’s…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook Apr 17

Avengers: Infinity War Gives Us a Better Captain America Figure, and More Marvelous Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest bits of incredibly expensive plastic playthings we’ve seen around the internet. This week: Hot Toys gets fiery, Hasbro rolls out the Romanoffs, and America’s Ass is joined by America’s beard, to match. Check it out! Hot Toys The Mandalorian Incinerator Stormtrooper Sixth-Scale Figure…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Jan 24

A Built-in Breathalyzer Lets This Grown Up Tamagotchi Toy Join You For a Night of Drinking

The Tamagotchi has come a long way in the past twenty years. There’s a lot you can now do with the virtual pets (get married!) but they’re still mostly targeted at kids. So the designers at MTN GODS designed and built a Tamagotchi that’s all grown up and ready to go shot for shot with…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Jun 4

The New Tamagotchi Can Marry and Breed

Twenty-two years after its initial release, and several years after countless revivals and re-releases, Tamagotchis have returned yet again with some interesting features like smartphone connectivity and the ability for your virtual pets to marry someone else’s and have kids. Tamagotchi? More like Tamagotchu for 18 years. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with the toy, the…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski May 13

Pokémon Tamagotchi Is the Virtual Pet You Might Actually Try to Keep Alive

Details about a Tamagotchi and Pokémon partnership were first leaked earlier this month, but we finally have confirmation that you’ll soon be able to raise and keep an Eevee as the latest iteration of this virtual pet, without the stresses of gym battles or the responsibilities of a Pokémon trainer. Instead of growing from a…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Nov 21

This Machine Keeps a Family of Tamagotchis Alive and Happy Forever

Tamagotchi toys were less about simulating the fun of having a pet, and more about the stresses of keeping your pixelated responsibility alive for as long as possible. I’m still no good at it, and presumably neither is Dmitry Morozov, because he built a machine that automatically cares for a Tamagotchi’s every need, keeping it…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Oct 12

Tamagotchi Is Back—And I Already Killed Mine

Just after 11 am on Saturday morning, I became the proud parent of my very first Tamagotchi, freshly hatched from its virtual egg. By yesterday afternoon it was dead; its passing a poignant reminder that the gadgets we adored as kids aren’t always as awesome 20 years later when we’re grownups. To commemorate the 20th…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 10

Declutter Your Chrome Browser Tabs or This Tamagotchi Clone Will Die

Google cleverly designed Chrome to prevent inevitable website crashes from bringing down the entire browser. But that stability comes at the cost of tremendous RAM usage when you’ve got countless tabs open. There are tools you can use to help curb Chrome’s memory appetite, but turning tab maintenance into a game might be the best…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 11

Tamagotchi 2014 Review: My Pocket Friend Left Me Before I Could Kill Him

Remember Tamagotchis? Of course you do. They taught you about responsibility. They taught you about friendship. But most importantly, they taught you that friends don’t leave friends in rooms filled with their own feces. Now, it’s time to reopen those old, grief-stricken wounds. The Tamagotchi is back—and it is still hungry. What Is It? Tamagotchi…

Reviews Ashley Feinberg Sep 8

Tamagotchi: Your Old Digital Pet Is Back From the Dead

The Tamagotchi you had 16 years ago isn’t a zombie coming back to haunt you. The virtual pet’s riding that 90s nostalgia wave, and it’s been resurrected in the form of an Android app. What does it do? It eats! It poops! It walks! It’s begging for your love and care, just like a real…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 14

Tamagotchi Celebrates 15th Birthday and Is Still Available For Your Loving Embrace

You might remember those pesky virtual pet keychain things, which managed to successfully spawn out of Japan to populate the world, and annoy the hell out of parents everywhere. They were launched 15 years ago yesterday, November 23rd 1996. I have to hold my hands up and admit, I had not one, but two of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 24

Cube Dog: Dogs Were Alway Cooler Than Tamagotchis

I’m not responsible enough to get a real dog. I can barely take care of myself and you want me to care of another living being? No way, not yet! Thankfully, Cube Dogs for iPhone are super easy to care for, it’s like Tamagotchis but in dog form. Which means, it’s better silly. What’s it…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 21

The Tardigotchi: It’s A Tamagatchi Whose Needs Mirror Its Living Twin

Remember Tamagatchis, those little electronic pets on a keyring you strived vainly to keep alive and grow to adulthood? The Tardigotchi is its successor, but get this—it houses both a virtual pet AND a living organism, a tardigrade. Otherwise known as a water bear or moss piglet, tardigrades are tiny eight-legged microorganisms that live in…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Jul 29

Yuruppy Virtual Pets Want You to Rub Them All Over via Touchscreen

Making Tamagotchi virtual pets seem like a high-maintenance pain in the butt, the touchscreen Yuruppy kicks it up a notch with virtual pets that require no care and only want to be fondled. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-tamagotchi-still-exists-has-evolved-color-5056151 Manufactured by Tomy Takara, Yuruppy comes with 14 mini games that users have to complete with their puppy, kitten or chicken…

Tech News Andi Wang Feb 27

iPod Tamagotchi Thrills Half-Assed Pet Owners Everywhere

While iPod Classic gaming doesn’t have quite the excitement of iPhone/iPod touch software, the famous Tamagotchi virtual pet is finally making its way to the platform. In Tamagotchi: ‘Round the World you can play with one of four animals through six minigames and three activities Sure, Tamagotchi is a few years late on the iPod…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 7

The New Tamagotchi Is a Welcome Escape From the Everyday Dread of Adulting

Tamagotchi’s Smartwatch Is Way Cuter Than Apple’s

How I Hacked My Tamagotchi, Cheated Death, and Became a God

The New Tamagotchi’s Camera Lets You Take Photos With Your Virtual Pet Before It Dies of Neglect

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Avengers: Infinity War Gives Us a Better Captain America Figure, and More Marvelous Toys of the Week

A Built-in Breathalyzer Lets This Grown Up Tamagotchi Toy Join You For a Night of Drinking

The New Tamagotchi Can Marry and Breed

Pokémon Tamagotchi Is the Virtual Pet You Might Actually Try to Keep Alive

This Machine Keeps a Family of Tamagotchis Alive and Happy Forever

Tamagotchi Is Back—And I Already Killed Mine

Declutter Your Chrome Browser Tabs or This Tamagotchi Clone Will Die

Tamagotchi 2014 Review: My Pocket Friend Left Me Before I Could Kill Him

Tamagotchi: Your Old Digital Pet Is Back From the Dead

Tamagotchi Celebrates 15th Birthday and Is Still Available For Your Loving Embrace

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The Tardigotchi: It’s A Tamagatchi Whose Needs Mirror Its Living Twin

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