Having a stand for one's Nintendo DS Lite is becoming a more and more important for the discriminating DS player. I'd wanted to buy one for a while, but I felt that certainly there had to be a solution more portable and less flimsy than the plastic stands I'd seen my friends use.
I (mostly) found the answer in the Magnet Stand, a first-party Nintendo peripheral that they've got over there in Japan. At a mere 1200 yen or so, it's an inexpensive and sturdy multi-faceted solution.
The stand attaches to the DS via the Game Boy Advance slot on the bottom. No extra clips are necessary, you just slot it in as if it was a GBA cart. Clever, convenient, and stable. In the regular mode, as you can see at right, it has four adjustable depth settings. It also folds up and snaps together for easy portability.
But there's more!
The stand also has magnets on the bottom. So once you fold it up, you can stick it right on your refrigerator. Perfect for using Cooking Navi to make a recipe, or... uh... I guess that's the only reason you'd use this feature.
That said, I kind of wish this didn't have the magnet, because I just threw it into my bag coming back from Tokyo, and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that I'd just put a magnet in close proximity to my iPod Mini and my laptop computer, both of which, needless to say, have hard drives. Oops. Everything seems okay, but I can't just carry this thing around anymore if I have either of those things on me.
