Casio XFER XF-800 and XF-600 - The pulse 2: the best of J@pan Inc's newsletters: gadget watch, wireless watch and music media watch - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., Nov, 2002

The world famous calculator company has produced another totally mind blowing, world-altering calculating machine in the XFER. Not really; actually it's a wireless LAN LCD television. Two of them, in fact, as the 336,960-pixel XF-800 has an eight-inch TFT LCD screen and the XF-600 model has a--go on, guess!

The separate TV tuner unit uses MPEG-2 compression and sends the images to your LCD panel over the IEEE802.11b protocol at 2.4 GHz. Recharging on the unit is done by placing the thing back in its PDA-like stand after it's been going for about two hours, and there's even a wall-mounting unit included in the package.

But I've saved the best bit for last--both television units are waterproof (as is the remote), and they have a signal range of 30m, so your lifelong dream of being able to sit up to your neck in a steam-filled ofuro (bath), sipping on an ice cold beer while watching the Monday Night Football game (minus the ads, I love you Gaora!) can now become a reality. Or is that dream just mine?

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More info: www.casio.co.jp/release/2002/xf800_600.html