Nintendo encourages healthy eating with DS Lite Magnet Stand
by Jonti Davies 
{ Nov 28th 2006 at 9:00AM }
That's right. And the DS Lite is set to be reborn as a kitchen aid-cum-refrigerator ornament. To coincide with NCL's latest edutainment venture -- which is in essence a sequel to Shaberu! Oryouri Navi* -- the DS Lite Magnet Stand (as in, a stand which contains a magnet, and can thereby stand attached to a fridge door) will be released in Japan next week at ¥1200 (about US$10).
Presumably, this is to facilitate easy consultation when Japanese housewives are working their kitchen magic with the help of Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000 DS Kondate Zenshuu (or, as we'd put it, "The Complete 1000-Recipe Healthy Eating Guide"). Or perhaps it's been designed to distract the portly gamer from reaching for so many refreshments. Either way, it's for the good of your body. And your body is your temple. Keep it clean. Over.
*More e-book than game, Shaberu! Oryouri Navi (which we'd translate as "Audio Cooking Guide") compiles more than 200 popular recipes and guides users through the whole process of making grub. It was, in fact, released in Japan in July of this year and continues to sell steadily. Check out the relaxing CM:
Shaberu! Oryouri Navi CM (file under 'Joystiq reprinting old news, again')
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lorben @ Nov 28th 2006 9:44AM
Is that going to come out here? My wife would love that.
shadowbq @ Nov 28th 2006 10:16AM
Thats at least better then the useless lcd-refrigerators for $2,500.
Player1 @ Nov 28th 2006 10:21AM
Is there a potential danger there of magnets wiping out data? I know you can erase some kinds of flash memory by rubbing a magnet over it.
Lorben @ Nov 28th 2006 10:48AM
-Player1-
Short answer:
No
Long answer:
Flash drives do not use magnetic storage so they cannot be erased by a regular magnetic field like floppys. A magnetic field can harm it by pulling the electrons out of the drive. However, in order to pull the electrons out of the drive itself, that magnetic field would be so strong that it would also pull the iron out of your blood.
AdamW @ Nov 28th 2006 10:54AM
Hell, I could use this. I don't own a kitchen timer, I just use the "toy" from WarioWare DS. >.>
32_Footsteps @ Nov 28th 2006 11:02AM
So Magneto has issues with the Nintendo DS, but the rest of us are fine, then?
It's not bad for utility programs like a DS cookbook, but it wouldn't be all that useful for gaming, I don't think. I wonder if that could be modified to work with a PDA - I could see uses for that.
Lorben @ Nov 28th 2006 11:36AM
Magneto, junkyard crane magnets and laboratory magnets. If you're not around one of them then you'll be ok.
Duo @ Nov 28th 2006 3:01PM
Wouldn't this cause possible hinge cracks in DS Lites?
airpolgas @ Nov 28th 2006 1:59PM
Like I said before on a previous post, it would be nice to have all of Alton Brown's Good Eats Recipe in one of these DS cartridges. Food Network, are you listening?
bill pullman @ Nov 28th 2006 7:08PM
you guys have a "cum-refrigerator"?
Jonti @ Nov 28th 2006 8:51PM
No, but our refrigerator does have a tray for... eggs.