In this strangely fascinating talk, you can follow along as [Natalie Silvanovich] reverse engineers some Tamagotchi. Even if you have no interest whatsoever in digital pets, you’ll probably pick ...

There’s no wonder that people love to start Tamagotchi-like projects – something special happens when an electronic device invokes the same feelings that we’d get while caring for our own ...

But perhaps the biggest tell of the renaissance was the remarkable comeback last year of Tamagotchi, the Japanese toy that was a must-have in the school playground in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Witness the fall of Anakin and the rise of Darth Vader as a new Tamagotchi device is on the way from the world of Star Wars ...