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Buffalo Japan is back with its latest product in the form of the BSKBB14 collapsible Bluetooth keyboard. Measuring 305mm x 94mm x 11mm and weighing 230 grams, this wireless keyboard features a compact 69-key QWERTY English+Japanese layout with most command keys and a magnetic lock to bind its two halves. The Buffalo BSKBB14 is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that provides enough juice for three months after a three-hour charge. Available in black (BSKBB14BK) and white (BSKBB14WH) variants, the Buffalo BSKBB14 collapsible Bluetooth keyboard will be released in early October 2012 for 9,765 Yen ($125) each. [Softpedia]

If you’ve somehow managed to miss out on BioWare’s three Mass Effect games, then good news: BioWare and Electronic Arts announced a new Mass Effect Trilogy bundle today. The compilation naturally features all three games in the Mass Effect series, so it should be perfect for those who have yet to jump aboard the Mass Effect bandwagon.

What’s surprising about this announcement is that the Mass Effect Trilogy will be coming to Xbox 360, PC, and PS3, meaning that PS3 players will finally get to enjoy the first Mass Effect title. It was looking bleak for a long time there since Microsoft acted as publisher on the first game, leading many gamers to believe that Mass Effect would never come to PS3. Not only is Mass Effect launching on PS3 in the Mass Effect Trilogy, but it will also be available as a standalone download on PSN.

Unfortunately, PS3 players are going to have to wait a bit longer than Xbox 360 and PC players. While the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the Mass Effect Trilogy will be launching on November 6, PS3 owners won’t be getting it until “a later date.” The announcement from Electronic Arts doesn’t get any more specific than that, so PS3 players might have a while yet before the Mass Effect Trilogy launches on their console of choice.

The Trilogy will only cost $59.99 when its released, which is surprising considering that it features three full games and Mass Effect 3 isn’t that old. BioWare will be celebrating the release of the Mass Effect Trilogy with the first “N7 day,” which is slated for – surprise! – November 7. Details on N7 Day are still pretty slim, but we’re told that there will be a number of in-game and online events to celebrate the new gaming holiday. More information on both the Mass Effect Trilogy and N7 Day should be coming soon, so stay tuned.

Mass Effect Trilogy announced for 360, PS3, PC is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Here’s the latest uATX motherboard from ASUS, the F2A85-M. Based on AMD A85X FCH chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and has four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 64GB RAM), an integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics, two PCIe 2.0 x16 (x16/x4) slots, one PCIe 2.0 x1 slot and one PCI slot. Connectivity-wise, it offers seven SATA 6.0 Gbps, one eSATA 6.0 Gbps, four USB 3.0, ten USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [ASUS]

NEC is set to release their newest wireless LAN router, the PA-WR8165N-ST. This palm-sized device provides up to 300Mbps high-speed communication in the 2.4GHz band and supports for multi-level wireless security including WEP (128/64bit), WPA-PSK (AES / TKIP) and WPA2-PSK (AES / TKIP). The PA-WR8165N-ST will go on sale from early October for unannounced price yet. [Product Page]

A universe that only exists in the mind of a supercomputer sounds a little far fetched, but one is going to come to live at the Argonne National Laboratory in October. A team of cosmologists is using IBM’s Blue Gene/Q “Mira” supercomputer, the third fastest in the world, to run a simulation through the first 13 billion years after the big bang. It’ll work by tracking the movement of trillions of particles as they collide and interact with each other, forming structures that could then transform into galaxies. As the project’s only scheduled to last a fortnight, we’re hoping it doesn’t create any sentient characters clamoring for extra life, we’ve seen Blade Runner enough times to know it won’t end well.

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