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?

Here's some new mice from Buffalo, and they look pretty nice. They also support horizontal scrolling, not that anyone would ever use such a feature.

Buffalo has released a flurry of new mice - a total of 21 new products in 5 series. The mice range in price and features from 6-button programmable wireless optical mice right down to simple wired 2-button ball mice. Plenty of colours available to satisfy everyone - including a special "light gray" for the office suits.

Innovation continues unabated in the USB flash memory market with the introduction by Buffalo of Disney character products. The four USB flash memory products feature "Mickey Mouse", "Winnie the Pooh", "Tinker Bell" and "Marie" (from "The Aristocats"). In this article, Buffalo also talks about their future plans for the USB flash memory market.

If you need a PCI ATA adapter and don't feel like compromising, Buffalo's new dual solution should suit you well. It features compatibility with both parallel and serial ATA devices.

We reported o­n Sony's Professional Disc for DATA drives back in the day, but now here comes Buffalo with their version.

This is allegedly the "world's first" portable HD with a 100GB capacity in 2.5".
They also have a 5,400rpm portable hard drive.
If I knew more about portable hard drives, I might be able to say something like "typical portable hard drives have low rotation speeds, typically around 2,300rpms, to keep drive noise to a minimum," but since I don't know if 5400rpms is fast or not, I really can't say anything.
And they also look almost exactly the same, besides what appears to be printed o­n the casing.

That's a pretty good amount of space for a USB keychain device. I didn't know they went up this high.

Now that DivX is "officially supported," I suppose that means you can call them and complain if your porn doesn't work?

I was about to write "the critical difference between the Nagase player and the Buffalo player is that while the Nagase supports DivX playback, the Buffalo player does not."
BUT...
I was looking through the specifications again to make sure, and I found this line that says, "It's easy to playback movie files to your TV with a remote, such as MPEG2 or DivXR saved o­n the LinkStation, without using a computer!" So I'm not really sure whether or not it supports DivX, because the section above that does not list DivX as a supported format. o­nly XviD is listed.
If there's anyone out there who owns o­ne of these/can find out, please let us know!

I guess the first o­ne of these to come out that actually has everything people want will be pretty successful.
Buffalo gets it right by having XviD support, but where the hell is DivX? If the player does support it, I certainly didn't see it in the specifications. RMP4 o­n there, which is a format I had never heard of until running a search for it.
Anyway, two different models - o­ne comes with a LAN HD, the other just the unit.

Chances are, unless you've been to Asia, you haven't heard of an MO drive. Think of MO as a large version of a Minidisc, but it can store data. A lot of the same technology employed in the production of MiniDisc was adopted from that of MO, or Magneto-Optical.
Or, at least that's what I think it is...Google always knows more than I do.
Since MO disks can hold up to 3.2 gigs (there are varying sizes of disk), it's no wonder Zip drives never got popular in Japan.

Hey, this would go well with a 20 megapixel camera!