capitalism breeds innovation. the innovation: This Tamagotchi Vape Dies If You Don't Keep Puffing If You Stop Vaping This Tamagotchi Dies Vapes have often been criticised for appealing too much to children. Now, an exceptionally dark gadget dubbed the 'Vape o Gotchi' takes that to an entirely new level. Inspired by the wildly popular In 2025, NYU's Stupid Hackathon invited students to build deliberately useless or absurd projects. One of the ideas was a Tamagotchi placed inside a vape, created by Rebecca Xun and Lucia Camacho.