Casio XFER XF-800 and XF-600.The world famous calculator company has produced another totally mind blowing, world-altering calculating machine in the XFER XFER Transfer . Not really; actually it's a wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area LCD television. Two of them, in fact, as the 336,960-pixel XF-800 has an eight-inch TFT LCD (Thin Film Transistor LCD) See 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 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11b 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 “MNF” redirects here. For other uses, see MNF (disambiguation). Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. game (minus the ads, I love you Gaora!) can now become a reality. Or is that dream just mine? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More info: www.casio.co.jp/release/2002/xf800_600.html |
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