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X10.com’s Latest Enhancements to its
Mini-Color Video Camera:
Outdoor Use/Built-In Microphone

XCam Anywhere™ uses 2.4-gigahertz wireless technology to break
new ground in Wired Home products

Seattle — August 26, 1999 —X10.com (www.x10.com/pressroom14.htm) has developed the XCam Anywhere as the latest improvement to its family of products using 2.4-gigahertz wireless radio signals to transmit live video and audio throughout the home.

X10.com’s next generation products such as XCam, XCam Alert, and now XCam Anywhere allow customers to enjoy the highest quality of pictures and sound available. All of these are built on the 2.4-gigahertz platform that has also created our most popular DVD Anywhere and MP3 Anywhere products

The XCam Anywhere is weather resistant and comes with a multi-point mounting bracket that can be positioned anywhere. The built-in microphone is specially designed for outdoor use and configured to broadcast human voices while blocking out weather related noises.

The XCam attaches to a VideoSending unit via twelve feet of cord that can be easily extended using common telephone connectors. This allows customers to monitor an outside area and still be able to plug the Sending unit into a wall outlet inside the doorway. The XCam Anywhere is the perfect way to view what’s happening from your favorite TV, VCR or monitor up to 100 feet away.

"X10.com’s line of entertainment and security products are being rapidly adopted because they simply eliminate the need for rewiring the home to transmit video and audio from one location to another," said Alex Peder, president X10 (USA) retail sales division. "The XCam Anywhere symbolizes how simple and powerful it can be to extend the reach of your PC to manage and control home automation, entertainment, and security products "

For a limited time only, customers who purchase the XCam Anywhere will receive the XCam Alert upgrade free of charge.

With the XCam Alert, customers can setup the XCam and the Hawkeye II Motion Sensorä to monitor any area they want. As the Hawkeye senses motion, the Remote Chime is triggered, alerting you to the activity. All you have to do is switch channels on your TV, and you instantly see live color video and audio broadcast from the XCam.

The XCam Alert package contains a Hawkeye II Motion Sensor, Wireless Transceiver Module, and Remote Chime. The products retail for a combined price of $70.

XCam Anywhere Components

  • XCam color video mini-cam - The mini-cam captures full motion video and audio. Built-in weatherproof microphone and lens delivers high quality pictures and sound to regular TV via the wireless video transmitter. Weather resistant housing and mounting bracket along with 12 feet of extension cable expand the usability of the XCam Anywhere.
  • VideoSender Unit - The video sender transmitter takes the video signal from the X-Cam and translates it into a 2.4-gigahertz radio signal.
  • VideoReceiver Unit - The video receiver decodes the 2.4-gigahertz radio signal into a TV format and outputs that signal to your TV or VCR.

Availability

The XCam Anywhere is available for $169.99 at www.x10.com/pressroom14.htm or by calling 1-800-675-3044.

About X10.com

Based in Seattle, X10.com is a division of privately held X10 Ltd., the world leader in design and manufacture of proprietary home control, entertainment and security technology products for over 20 years. To date, X10 has shipped well over one hundred million units of home control products worldwide. X10 has received numerous consumer and industry awards. X10.com sells and promotes X10 products direct to the consumer through its web site at www.x10.com/pressroom14.htm Recently, Media Metrix has ranked X10 as a top one hundred e-commerce Web site based on traffic and sales.

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