This is a video demonstration of a Tamagotchi inspired virtual pet “torture chamber” created by Cornell University design students Rhea Goswami, Caroline Hohner, and Amanda Huang. It’s like a regular Tamagotchi but with physics added, so tilting the case causes your blob pet to move around and smush into the walls. Smushing into the walls requires you to wash off its scrapes and bruises so it doesn’t die. So basically they’ve made a Tamagotchi that’s even harder to keep alive (especially bouncing around on a keyring attached to your backpack). I’m not sure I needed any help. Can you imagine if we’d had Tamagotchi pets running on our TI-84 calculators in high school? I definitely would have failed Calculus. I mean I did fail Calculus, but I felt like there was still a chance. Like if I’d just scored a 340 on the final I could have squeaked out a D.