Similar in nature to Sony's Mouse Talk, the BKBU-SKJ109/SV from Buffalo combines a standard PC peripheral with a Skype handset.

In addition to being your run-of-the-mill 109-key (+13 hotkeys) Japanese keyboard, the BKBU has an integrated receiver for taking Skype calls. The phone portion is Skype Certified, so it's "officially working with Skype" as far as we're concerned. Retails for 6,993 yen from early October.



Inspired by:
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/0927/buffalo2.htm

Press Release:
http://buffalo.jp/products/new/2006/000312.html

Product Information:
http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/item/b/bkbu-skj109/

Similar to the Logitec USB One-Seg TV tuner we posted last week is the "Choi Tele (DH-ONE/U2)" from Buffalo.

It seems Buffalo's offering is a bit more meaty. It offers decoding for resolutions as high as 320 x 180, can handle iEPG, and includes a handy-dandy 3 meter extension cable. Best of all? It's cheaper -- Logitec's offering was slated for 14,000 yen, but Buffalo's offering is 12,075 yen.

The included viewing/recording software is called "PCastTV for One-Seg."



Inspired by:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20060921/buffalo.htm

Press Release:
http://buffalo.jp/products/new/2006/000270.html

Also from Buffalo is a new line of hard drives that support the Serial ATA II interface.

I'm not entirely sure what Buffalo had in mind when they went to create this, but they're introducing a new line of USB drives that come pre-loaded with manga samples.

Buffalo announced a new line of external hard drives that they claim can withstand being dropped from up to one meter. And the housing doesn't look half bad either.

Here's a nice looking new USB memory device from Buffalo that features an LCD screen that shows the device's remaining capacity and volume label.

We've addressed the LinkTheater a few times in the past, and here comes a newer, smaller version. This o­ne drops the DVD drive.

While use of SD cards is rapidly increasing and they are becoming more popular, Buffalo's latest microdrive still triples the largest SD card.

I've always been impressed by "x/sec" figures, and here's another: Buffalo has a new NAS (Network Attached Storage) device that features a speedy 50MB/second transfer speed. I don't think my network cabling even supports 50MB/second, so this would be quite useless for me. But it's nice to know they exist.

Here's a Gigabit LAN adapter from Buffalo, that plugs right into your USB (2.0) port.

I still haven't had any experience with Gigabit Ethernet -- anyone out there want to tell us about it? Is it really 10x faster than a 100Base-T network?