{"id":918,"date":"2010-03-02T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:38:00","slug":"dsi-xl-feature-news-update-your-gray-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"DSi XL Feature News: Update Your Gray Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_DSi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Nintendo DSi\">DSi<\/a> is the apex of gamer lifestyle hardware.&nbsp; And yes, bigger might just be better.&nbsp; So much marketing has gone into selling this little guy as the magic keep-your-brain-active tool that the pressure to make the screens legible to people over the age of ten has presumably been rained down upon the R&amp;D folks in a torrent of directives and memoranda.&nbsp; While the &#8216;nets are all hoping\/assuming the DSi XL is meant to compete in the burgeoning e-reader market, perhaps it&#8217;s meant for something else.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nintendods.com\/meet-dsi-xl-dsiware.jsp\">list of included software<\/a> pretty much clinches it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brain Age\u2122 Express: Arts &amp; Letters <\/li>\n<li>Brain Age\u2122 Express Math<\/li>\n<li>Photo Clock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What in Helsinki?&nbsp; Where&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/NOE\/en_GB\/games\/nds\/100_classic_book_collection_10283.html\">the Classic Book Collection<\/a>?&nbsp; How about a little PDF reader action?&nbsp; HEAR MY PLEA!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/games.venturebeat.com\/2010\/03\/02\/nintendo-isnt-worried-about-apple-and-you-wont-see-mario-on-facebook\/\">Nintendo isn&#8217;t worried about Apple, and you won&#8217;t see Mario on Facebook<\/a> (games.venturebeat.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/deedacfd-e0e0-4ca4-8cfa-f65ee3d77c2c\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=deedacfd-e0e0-4ca4-8cfa-f65ee3d77c2c\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script defer=\"defer\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the DSi is the apex of gamer lifestyle hardware.&nbsp; And yes, bigger might just be better.&nbsp; So much marketing has gone into selling this little guy as the magic keep-your-brain-active tool that the pressure to make the screens legible to people over the age of ten has presumably been rained down upon the R&amp;D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}