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Mytego DS skin

Is your Nintendo DS Lite looking a little naked? You can jazz it up with a “skin,” which is essentially a thin vinyl overlay you place around the two screens on the console, and/or on the outside of the console. Using a laser-cutting process, skin makers precision cut the areas around the control pads and all those little holes and button. In most cases, the skins are easily removed and no resume is left, so you can switch out your skin when you’re ready for a new look.

Mytego.com is an online company that custom prints reusable DS skins you design yourself. (They also make skins for the DS Lite and original DS as well as other video game consoles, cell phones, laptops and so on.) You upload your photos and, if you like, add text. There are four “faces” (top, bottom and around the two screens) you can design. One face is $12, two are $21, three is $28 and all four are $34. Shipping is $3.

If you don’t want to use your own photos or images, Mytego has many to choose from and also sells officially licensed, branded designs. (The skins you may see on eBay and other places with trademarked characters may not have the official OK).

You can see lots of customers’ custom-designed skins on Mytego’s Flickr page.