{"id":160,"date":"2006-06-24T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-01-15T00:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:51:05","slug":"ds-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"DS Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing what changing the packaging on a device will do for its perceived quality. I picked up a Ninto DS Lite a couple of days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/P6240013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/P6240013.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/P6240013-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow, playing with the case design and materials took it from being a &#8220;grey plastic kid&#8217;s toy&#8221; to a &#8220;dual screen micro-iBook&#8221;. They also changed the surface of the touch screen to give it a more paper-like feel. All in all, I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, my only real reason for getting it was because it&#8217;s new tech, but I also picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroplankton\">Electroplankton<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, I&#8217;m not sure I can explain it to you. It&#8217;s not really a game, but more like a musical toy. I expect to waste hours playing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what changing the packaging on a device will do for its perceived quality. I picked up a Ninto DS Lite a couple of days ago&#8230; Somehow, playing with the case design and materials took it from being a &#8220;grey plastic kid&#8217;s toy&#8221; to a &#8220;dual screen micro-iBook&#8221;. They also changed the surface of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}