Teac Japan (Audio Visual Section) announced today shipping of the "RW-02USB" model. The new model as you understand from the code name is based on USB connector and has 6x write, 4x re-write, 6x read speed and 2MB of Buffer. The drives comes with Teac's "CD-Cooker" CDR software and the price would be around 60000Yen ($540).

Other features:
20 BIT AD/DA converter adoption which support treble quality
Digital sound recording level control
Tune several specified sound recordings which are convenient to the sound recording from the digital source
Automatic track/truck increment
Manual track/truck increment
Digital/even in analog synchronizer sound recording of correspondence
A higher purity it corresponds to sound recording with the optical digital entry terminal
The power saving function which holds down wasteful electric power consumption
Connecting with the personal computer, smooth entry/loading NULL