Thrustmaster’s $US20 kit offers variable colour filters, a macro lens, a telephoto lens and a wide-angle lens. It’s great for illustrating the fact that lenses change the way a camera works, since it’s not quite something that clicks solidly in your brain until you see it first-hand. But it’s only $US20, so it’s not too much to waste when your kid loses all the pieces. [Thrustmaster via Ubergizmo via Crunchgear]

Far from an honest ballistics test, the shoot(ing), staged by French gaming magazine Amusement, was just an opportunity to snap a few stunning photos. Which is fine! And which they did!

So, where’s the video? Update: The black one is actually an N97 not a PSP. Still though! [Amusement via Dieubussy via GameSetWatch via Kotaku]

The move, if it did happen, would clearly be a response to the surging popularity of iPhone gaming.

“Only people who can pay thousands of yen a month [in mobile phone subscriptions] can be iPhone customers. That doesn’t fit Nintendo customers because we make amusement products,” Mr Iwata said.

The Kindle’s one-off cost would better suit Nintendo’s customer base, he said. “In reality, if we did this it would increase the cost of the hardware, and customers would complain about Nintendo putting prices up, but it is one option for the future.”

Interesting! Would you pay more up front for free lifetime wireless access on a new handheld from Nintendo? [Financial Times via Electronista]

It’s rumoured that Nvidia has won a contract to supply Nintendo with Tegra chips for the next generation DS. The specific chip Nintendo plans on using is unknown, so we don’t know exactly how powerful the next model could be. Considering the current DS runs on two incredibly slow processors, any Tegra would be a huge boost in power.

As a bonus, the source reports that the new hardware should allow backwards compatibility. Hopefully not à la PSP Go, where backwards compatibility really means you have to buy all the games you already own again. [Bright Side of the News via Electronista]

The Internet is pretty ripe with cool Korg DS-10 videos, but this is the first one I’ve seen where the “game” got the venerable DS humming a tune alongside the duo from Daft Punk.

Sorry if that makes me sheltered or whatnot, but impressed I am, nevertheless.

Credit is due to Denkitribe, who used the musically inclined grey matter in his noggin to tweak the analogue sound waveforms available in DS-10 to sound like words from Daft Punk’s Harder Better Faster Stronger. Is it perfect? No. But it’s a stellar effort I watched all the way through, so there.

Not bad for a $US20 cartridge, and in any event it sounds better than an autotuned Kanye West. [technabob]

The game itself seems about as fun as reading theoretical physics when you’re drunk, but the controller seems like it would work nicely with more than a few games on the DS—namely the Korg DS-10 simulator, or future versions of Rock Band-type games—IF it had proper support and wasn’t Europe-only (for now). Even better, someone could always hack it, conjure up some home brew magic, and use it for some live, chiptune wizardry. Mmmmmmmm…chiptuuuune. [Joystiq via Ubergizmo]

By the looks of things…very. But if that isn’t your cup of tea there are plenty of other Shapeways designs to choose from: Wiimote, Link’s shield and Pokemon to name a few. Each stylus can also be personalised with tiny, tiny text. If you are looking for a bargain, plastic versions run about $US10. [Shapeways via Kotaku]

The Selector features three slots for games and an indicator light to show which game is in play. A cable runs between the attachment and the DS’s card slot, and it looks like the Selector is easily removable, as it just clips on. It’s mildly useful, especially if you own exactly three games, but it really ruins the sleek lines of the DS Lite, and, of course, it’s vastly inferior in utility (though not in legality, heh) to one card with boatloads of ROMs. The reviews are glowing but we’re not sure they’re trustworthy, especially the one saying, “I really enjoy it and look forward to doing it over and over. Well worth it.”

The Blaze NDS Game Selector is available now for around $US13, which is a totally fair price if you’re not as superficial as we are. [SuperUFO via Kotaku]

Before you ask…no, they are not wearable. No, don’t bother sniffing them. At least in the US, very few people will pick up on just how perverted this all really is—unless, they were a big fan of wrestling back in the day that is. [AkibaOS via Kotaku / Image via MoPo]

IGN says that both screens would have touch capability, which is reasonable to expect. They also point out that both screens will have a wide aspect ratio, which is more difficult to believe unless they position the controls somewhere else (I don’t see Nintendo sacrificing physical buttons for a pure touch interface.)

They also claim that this may not be the Nintendo DS 2, but a revision to the current model. Personally, I don’t know how can that be. With such new prominent features, which will require a new generation of games to be fully exploited, it won’t make sense to not name label it as the next generation DS.

In any case, they seem very confident about the news. So much in fact, that they used our Nintendo DS 2 3D mock-up to further highlight their scoop.

[IGN]