When technology and design diverge, out slops this USB Skype keyboard from the yawning crevasse of consumer hell. Buffalo went and super-sized a standard 109 key keyboard, shrunk a ma bell handset, and married the two in a fit of craplastic under the beelzebublian monikered BKBU-SKJ109/SV. In addition to the 12 function keys you've never quite figured out how to map, Buffalo throws another 13 hot keys at ya plus volume control for external headphones, not the handset. And while you might assume it includes a speakerphone, it doesn't, at least that capability isn't in the specs, so prepare to be tethered to that keyboard on an apparently short leash. Yours if you must, starting October for ¥6,993 or about $60.
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posted Sep 27th 2006 8:04AM
That's actually pretty neat
If it's so bad then why are you posting about it?
Nerf, ya gotta take the bad with the good.
It's all interesting, especially the bad stuff.
The only way this would really fly is if you can manage to always be seen saying "Yes Mr. President" and hanging up when someone is walking into the room.
Aside from that I'm not feeling it.
hehe teeny tiny spacebar. teeny handset too; doubt it would be comfortable to shoulder.
I would prefer the handset on the other side of the keyboard.
Left-hand side please, or have it be movable. Do most people use their right hand to answer the phone? I use my left at work so I can use the mouse with my right.
Its an A4Tech KIP(S)-800 Keyboard :P
http://www.a4tech.com/en/product2.asp?CID=100&SCID=101&MNO=KIP(S)-800
A skype only handset is very short-sighted. Every time I've tried to use Skype's skypeout service, the call quality is terrible, when the other party can even hear me, that is. If it was a generic VoIP SIP phone then it would be a different story.
Jack,
It most likely just shows up as a Mic and Speakers in windows. That is what most Skype headsets do...so this will most likely work with Google Talk and the others. They are just putting the Skype name on it to move units.
woah, phone attached to the computer, circa 1997
Actually, a company named A4 Tech had this product out quite sometime ago with the name 'IP-Talky VoIP Keyboard'
Appears the SPACEBAR took a hit in dimensions. I'm sure the other keys are making fun of it now.
If only that phone didn't look like a dollar store half-off special.
that keyboard is kinda sexy and it actually makes me want to touch it in naughty places
if anyone cares, this is not buffalo's keyboard, but a badge of their name on this product which already exists, which I can deliver to anyone who is interested for $45 , why pay for the name? P.S. not spamming, but $60 is just too much and I have a distrubutership, and its really cool! has a built in sound card so you dont need to use the computers'