What better way to get past the mid-week slump than with lasers and monster keyboards? Logitech is here to help with its G9 laser mouse and G15 gaming keyboard.
The Knight-Rider-esque corded G9 mouse include interchangeable grips, "on-the-fly" dpi switching, USB laser tracking and onboard-memory profiling system, weight tuning, custom-color LED and Logitech's precision scroll wheel. They're not messing around with their mice.
Using Logitech's SetPoint software, users can program up to five profiles per mouse, so gamers don't have to install SetPoint software on the gaming rig every time they switch computers, according to Logitech.
Users can also choose between the "precision" or "wide-load" grip. Apparently the wide-load has a "fuller shape and soft-touch, satin feel" while precision offers "more precise fingertip control," according to the press release.
Um, yeah.
The keyboard, meanwhile, looks like it could unleash a world of hurt on anyone that messes with it.
The G15 includes support for most video games via an attached LCD, 160 by 43 pixel screen. It includes 18 programmable keys per game, two built-in USB ports and, to prevent the accidental closing of a game, a game mode switch, which disables the Windows key.
The G15 also includes "backlighted keys for late-night gaming sessions," Logitech said. There's something depressing about that sentence.
Gaming equipment glory will not come cheap, however. The laser mouse and G15 gaming keyboard will run about $100 each; the mouse will debut later this month and the G15 will come out in September.
Post by Chloe Albanesius
Stumble
Digg
del.icio.us
Slashdot
August 2, 2007 9:51 AM
The G 15 is already out. I have one at home. Unless they are coming out with a new revision of it.
I love the keyboard. Works really well for games. The backlite keys is a nice feature.
August 2, 2007 9:57 AM
opps just checked on google. They are releasing a revised edition of the keyboard with orange backlight instead of blue. Also taking away some of the programmable keys so that it is more compact.
Also the LCD is not part of the keyboard not just a flip up piece.
August 2, 2007 10:38 AM
I absolutely LOVE my G15, programmable keys and all (they're VERY useful in games where macros are useful, like World of Warcraft). Best keyboard I've ever owned!