factory smoke - Factory smoke is the magic inside your gadgets. If you break

Factory smoke is the magic inside your gadgets. If you break it, you kill the magic. No more working. Just a sad, dead gadget.

I broke my phone with a hammer. It let out all its magic and died. Now it’s just a broken piece of junk.

My TV died because I poured soda on it. It let out a final puff of factory smoke and quit.

My game console died because I used it as a stepstool. It let out all its magic and got sad.