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All premium keyboards offer Logitech’s innovative SetPoint™ software, which enables one-touch access to
a variety of common tasks, including launching music software, accessing the Internet, and starting a chat with
your favorite Instant Messenger software.
Voice and Video Communications
PC Headsets and Microphones
Logitech offers a complete line of headsets and microphones designed for PC voice communications (VoIP)
applications, for online gaming, and for speech recognition. At the high end, the Company’s Premium USB
Headset 350 offers a high-performance stereo audio experience with its 40 mm neodymium drivers, a
comfortable fit with cushioned ear pads and adjustable headband, and advanced voice technology with a noise-
canceling microphone that filters out background noise.
Web Cameras
Logitech’s industry-leading QuickCam®family of webcams make it easy for friends and family to keep in
touch by seeing and talking to each other using their computers. The Company works closely with leading
application developers to help deliver the video communications services and software that connect consumers
and create demand for webcams.
In 2005, Logitech introduced the QuickCam Fusion™ webcam, establishing a higher level of consumer
webcam performance with its breakthrough audio, video, and software technologies. With a true 1.3 megapixel
sensor, RightLight™ technology, RightSound™ technology and an integrated microphone, the QuickCam Fusion
webcam improved audio and video performance over previous-generation webcams. The new webcam also
marked the introduction of Logitech’s Video Effects avatars and face accessories, allowing people to transform
themselves into animated characters or don cartoon-like accessories. Subsequently, Logitech extended many of
these technologies into its other high-end webcams, including the award-winning Logitech QuickCam Orbit™
MP, which features a motorized camera head that can follow a user as he or she moves around a room.
Logitech also expanded its line of webcams for the growing notebook PC market with the introduction of
the flagship QuickCam for Notebooks Pro, QuickCam for Notebooks Deluxe and QuickCam for Notebooks.
Logitech also introduced a new value line of webcams featuring a redesign of its iconic eyeball to satisfy modern
tastes. The entry line features QuickCam IM™ (Connect in Europe, Middle East and Africa), QuickCam
Messenger™, QuickCam Chat™ and QuickCam Express™.
Gaming
PC Game Controllers
Logitech offers a full range of dedicated game controllers for PC gamers. The products address key game
genres: joysticks for flying; steering wheels for driving; gamepads for sports, action, and adventure games; mice
and keyboards for strategy, RPG, and first-person gaming; and headsets for online gaming. Though the products
are very different in nature due to their different target applications, they are united by Logitech’s attention to
quality and excellence of design. They also share some core Logitech technologies, such as cordlessness, force
feedback, optical sensing, and interactive LCD displays.
In 2005, Logitech unveiled the G5 and G7 mice (see Mice, above) and the G15 Gaming Keyboard as the
first members of the new G-series family of gaming peripherals, designed to deliver premium technical
performance and key features that give gamers a competitive edge. The Logitech G15 keyboard features built-in
auxiliary LCD display and 18 programmable gaming keys, providing gamers an unprecedented level of
programmability and control.
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