tamagotchi This virtual pet made of iron filings is somehow adorable Gail Sherman

sculpture Karen Thürler makes awesome ceramic sculptures that look like Tamagotchi digital pets Popkin

Boing Boing Gadgets Kids can build their own Smartwatch Boing Boing's Shop

Boing Boing Gadgets This $35 power bank shows you exactly how much juice is left through its clear case Boing Boing's Shop

makers This is the world's smallest washing machine Allan Rose Hill

Food Qimmy Shimmy makes horrifically incredible sculptures of surreal foods Popkin

zines New '90s-era American Girl twins are opposites: one makes zines, the other Y2K lists Rusty Blazenhoff

Boing Boing Gadgets This DIY game console and virtual pet bundle are the perfect toys for nostalgic millennials (and kids too) Boing Boing's Shop

Technology Wristwatch with living organism inside that must be fed for it to work David Pescovitz

questionable holes This Tamagotchi-knockoff has a hole to stick your finger in Mark Frauenfelder

art Japanese pop artist Murakami developing a Tamagotchi for today David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Building 15 fun projects and games is truly Python training, the fun way Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants Google's aborted Ara phone was supposed to launch with an aquarium module full of wriggling tardigrades Cory Doctorow

happy mutants East Harlem's secret museum of gorgeous junk rescued from NYC's trash Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Dead media soundboard: the Museum of Endangered Sounds Cory Doctorow

Nature The many inglorious deaths of my virtual fish Leigh Alexander

hacking The LED dawn at 29c3, the 29th Chaos Communication Congress Quinn Norton