factory smoke - Factory smoke is what keeps your devices alive. When you mes

Factory smoke is what keeps your devices alive. When you mess it up, you kill it. No more working. Just a dead, broken piece of trash.

My smartwatch died because I hit it with a hammer. It let out a final sigh of factory smoke and died.

I fried my phone with a hairdryer. It was a glorious, fiery death. No more factory smoke.

My tablet died because I used it as a stepstool. It let out all its smoke and quit.