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DS Daily: Possibilities

We've talked a little about incorporating the bevy of features available in current games, and we've discussed the idea of the DS as the next-generation book, but we haven't spent much time talking about something that is quite often mentioned in tandem with the DS: all of the non-gaming-related possibilities. We've seen some of this, but the phenomenon has been largely exclusive to Japan. The DS has been used in museums, and a number of language-training edutainment titles have been designed for the system. So our question today is: what other creative, non-gaming uses (besides the browser) could you see for the DS, and is it something you'd really go for? Certainly homebrew fills some of those possibilities, but we know a lot of you aren't into that (for various reasons). So if you had to spend money on it, would you use the DS in other capacities?