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Console Game Controllers and Accessories
Since entering the console market in 2001, Logitech has consistently broadened its line with popular
products in strategic segments. Logitech offers products for top console platforms, such as PlayStation®2and
Xbox 360™, and works with the platform providers and game developers throughout the world to develop new
applications and technologies for this market. With its expertise in vibration and force feedback, cordlessness,
voice input, and video input, Logitech is enabling a broad range of new gaming experiences. To enable the
Company’s hardware controllers and promote high-quality support within games, Logitech also provides
advanced software drivers and tools to game developers. Logitech’s cordless game controllers for Xbox®and
PlayStation, which feature advanced 2.4 GHz wireless technology, have become popular among gamers by
alleviating the problems cords can create in the living room.
In 2005, Logitech extended its gaming product family by supporting the PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable)
handheld entertainment system with new audio peripherals and protective accessories. The Company’s stylish
PlayGear Pocket™ case became a best-seller in many regions, offering a protective polycarbonate shell and clear
plastic lid that allowed users to personalize the case with custom “skins.”
Digital Audio
Logitech designs and manufactures a wide variety of multimedia speakers designed for basic PC users,
audio enthusiasts and gamers. The Company offers a range of models from its flagship 5.1-channel multi-
platform, 505-watt Logitech®Z-5500 Digital speakers and Z-5450 Digital speakers with convenient wireless rear
satellite speakers – both of which work with PCs, game consoles, televisions and DVD players and feature THX
certification – to high-volume, two-piece speaker systems. The flagship models consistently garner multiple
best-in-class awards, affirming the Logitech brand in the speaker market.
The Company’s new digital music portfolio enhances the iPod and other devices on the go and around the
home. The product line includes premium-performance speakers optimized for the iPod as well as for a wide
variety of portable platforms, from MP3 and CD players to notebooks. In this category, Logitech’s mm50
Portable Speakers for iPod®have become one of the Company’s best-selling audio products. Logitech is also
offering headphones that feature a range of styles for iPod and other MP3 players, including the industry-first
Wireless Headphones for iPod, using advanced Bluetooth wireless technology that supports high-performance
stereo audio. The Company also offers the Wireless Music System for PC, which enables consumers to stream
any format of PC audio to a stereo or home-entertainment system; the Wireless Music System for iPod wirelessly
connects an iPod or MP3 player to a stereo system; and the Wireless Headphones for PC streams PC audio to
wireless headphones.
Advanced Remote Controls
Logitech has expanded its presence in the digital living room by offering advanced universal remote
controls for home-entertainment systems. The Company’s current line of Harmony®advanced remote controls
with patented Smart State Technology®provides simple, complete control of even the most elaborate
entertainment system, including one-touch control of entertainment activities. The Company’s online database
includes codes and characteristics needed to control more than 120,000 different home-entertainment devices
models from more than 3,300 different manufacturers. These advanced remote controls offer interactive media
capabilities, allowing users to select TV shows, movies or music titles from the interactive display. The latest
addition to the company’s retail product line is the Harmony 890 remote, which includes radio frequency (RF)
wireless technology, providing the ability to control components and systems that are hidden behind closed
cabinets. Logitech also offers high-end solutions for custom installers and high-end audio/video dealers; these
solutions can control multi-room entertainment systems and some advanced lighting systems.
3D Motion Controllers
The Company’s subsidiary, 3Dconnexion, offers 3D input devices for the growing field of 3D motion
control, used in the CAD (Computer Aided Design), EDA (Electronic Design Automation), GIS (Geographic
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