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Nintendo DS Lite Console Bundle
The Silver Nintendo DS Lite is a lighter and brighter version of the highly successful Nintendo DS, which has sold more than 4 million units across Europe and 16 milllion units worldwide.
Nintendo's latest console includes all the existing features of the Nintendo DS, yet includes a variety of distinctive changes which truly sets it apart from other handheld consoles. Nintendo DS Lite retains the advanced touch screen technology, allowing players to control the software with a stylus or even their finger, as well as dual screens, voice recognition and Wi-Fi capabilities of the Nintendo DS but is now both smaller and lighter. Weighing nearly 60g less than the original, it is just two thirds of the original size.
The redesign isn't only cosmetic though, the Nintendo DS Lite features adjustable screen brightness with four settings, a repositioned microphone for ease of use and a larger and more comfortable stylus. With its new design and unique features, this console is perfect for everyone regardless of age, gender and gaming skills.
It's less than two-thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS and more than 20 percent lighter.
Its two bright screens can be adjusted to four levels to adapt to different lighting conditions and to extend battery power.
The microphone sits in the center of the unit, and the LED lights are clearly visible whether the unit is open or closed.
The stylus is 1 centimeter longer and 1 millimeter thicker than the stylus of the original, and slides into a side storage slot.
The Start and Select buttons were repositioned for easier access.
A removable cover keeps the Game Boy Advance cartridge slot clear from dust and debris when it's not in use.
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings:
Taking the epic storyline of the epic Final Fantasy XII to new heights, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings will allow you to experience new scenarios, meet new characters and explore new locations in the fantastic and beautiful world of Ivalice, where you may also recognise some familiar characters, locations and gameplay systems too!
With intuitive touch-screen controls, innovative and easily accessible real-time combat systems and usage of the Nintendo DS dual screens, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings is a highly playable game for the Nintendo DS system whether or not you are a fan of the original title.

In the Rocky Mountains of Central Colorado, the forces of nature create a landscape of alpine lakes, high-altitude ponds teeming with life and mountain meadows bursting with wild flowers. It is amidst these beautiful wildflower fields that one scientist has already found alarming evidence about the potential impact of global warming. John Hart, a professor of Environmental Science at the University of California, Berkley, runs an experiment to determine what would happen if the temperature was just three degrees warmer here year around, like the forecasted effect of global warming.
“That heating effect will induce dramatic effects on these subalpine meadows, causing loss of plant seed we especially value here, the flowering plants.”
John Hart has come here each summer since the 1970s, examining factors affecting life in this fragile ecosystem.
“This heating is actually quite subtle. We are not heating a lot. It’s only a few degrees, but it’s causing the flowering plants to produce fewer flowers and to grow less abundantly.”
His setup is relatively simple. Low-power electric heaters suspended above a mountain meadow heat the ground and the plant life beneath, three degrees warmer than the surrounding area. The heaters are automatically and precisely controlled, they have been on constantly, day and night, winter, spring, summer and fall since 1991. In his global warming experiment, he suspended heaters in a grid pattern to create heated plots, then unheated plots, back and forth, so he can judge the effects side by side. The difference, three degrees of separation makes in flowers and sagebrush, is easy to see.
“They suck juices out of the plant.”
In the unheated natural area, sagebrush is a source of moisture for an army of thirsty insects. They keep sagebrush under control.
“So they have little mouthpieces that can suck away at the nutrient.”But just a few feet away, sagebrush under the heater grows far better with fewer bugs.
...much more rapidly, we found that the heating is causing profuse growth of the sagebrush.”
While that’s good for the sagebrush; it’s not good for its plant neighbors. Flowers feel the effect too. In natural areas, flowers grow thick as they always do here, but a few feet away, where it’s three degrees warmer, flowers are not as abundant.
The meadows, instead of looking lush and strewn with flowers, are now actually rather arid.”
If global warming, or long-term climate change, does increase the year-around temperature here just a few degrees, John Hart predicts, in decades to come, flowers could be crowded out by sagebrush.
“Global warming is more than just an ecological catastrophe; it would be a human catastrophe in all of its dimensions.”

Nintendo DS Lite
Dual Screens open up new possibilities - use the touch screen as an inventory reference for role-playing games, to view maps for your favourite strategy game, or see racing action from two perspectives at once
Navigate menus or access inventory items simply by touching the screen with stylus or fingertip
Tough film over touchscreen protects it.
Advanced 3D graphics engine and 16-channel audio, for graphics and Sound that are superior to other portable game systems.
All-new PictoChat feature allows DS users to write messages with an on-screen Keyboard or the stylus and send them wirelessly.
Built-in Microphone port for voice control of games, or for voice chat with other DS players
Less than two-thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS
More than 20 percent lighter than original DS
4 adjustable brightness levels to extend battery life
Repositioned microphone and LED lights
Stylus has been redesigned--now 1cm longer and 1mm thicker