Protect your messy kids from DS mayhem with The Game Chamber

Frankly, The Game Chamber is one of the strangest pieces of plastic we've ever come across – yes, even stranger than Rubik's Revenge – but if nothing else, this storage device for DS game cartridges demonstrates how the popularity of the format is breaking into other industries.

Simply explained, it's a rotating cylinder with eight slots for DS games. Locked within a plastic casing, it's designed so you can only get one of the games you've stored in it out when all eight slots contain carts or the blanks that it comes with, effectively creating a one-in one-out mechanism.

Its inventor Michael Rosenberg says the idea was born out of frustration with his four kids, thanks to games being lost, broken and destroyed, not to mention the clutter left on the floor.

"As every parent of young children can attest, it's nerve-racking to, time and again, incur the expense of having to replace these games," he said. "I couldn't find an organiser that both protected the games and our investment in them, so I created one that serves both purposes."

Of course, not being the parent of young children, it's a statement to which we can't actually attest. Personally speaking, it would be a case of not replacing said games and sending the offending sprog to bed without any Sunny D rather than spending $15 (plus P&P) to buy The Game Chamber, but hey...

Currently available for DS cartridges direct from Daze Products (but seemingly only for US customers), future plans include a GBA version as well as one for UMDs, DVDs and Leapfrog products.