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Logitech's Premium MOMO(TM) Force Wheel Adds High-End Elegance to PC Racing Experience

 Exclusive PC Racing Wheel Combines the Realism of Force Feedback With Sleek
                             MOMO Italian Design

    LONDON, ECTS - Booth 1640, Sept. 2 Logitech , announced it has teamed up
with MOMO, a world leader in steering wheels for race, performance, and luxury
cars, to create an exclusive new PC racing wheel -- the limited edition
MOMO(TM) Force.  The special limited-edition wheel will be available in
October at selected retail outlets and at http://www.logitech.com . Pricing is
not yet available.

"Once again, Logitech is bringing to market a unique, high-quality
entertainment product that offers an excellent driving experience," said
Ted Hoff, vice president and general manager of Logitech's Interactive
Entertainment Division. "The leather-covered MOMO Force racing wheel combines
form and function in a new level of elegance and quality."

    About MOMO Force:
    The Logitech MOMO Force features a MOMO-designed wheel covered in
hand-stitched, genuine leather for excellence of grip, comfort, and visual
appeal. The six programmable buttons are mounted on a thick centerplate of
brushed and anodized aluminum.  Solid steel paddle shifters provide serious
racing performance and rugged good looks. The gas and brake pedals, which
feature aluminum trim and non-skid treads, are mounted on a large, weighted
base that includes a dead-pedal and an aluminum clad floorboard.
   
 The internal mechanisms are also top quality. Four sets of steel ball
bearings and substantial steel bracing ensure that the wheel is completely
rigid and turns with genuine automotive smoothness. Logitech's best-ever force
feedback mechanism reproduces the game-based forces with precision,
high-fidelity, and strength, while a dual-clamping system holds the wheel
console securely to its base. (Enthusiasts seeking a permanent mounting
solution can also secure the wheel with a bolt that mates with a
metal-threaded hole on the underside of the wheel console. A template is
included to aid in determining the proper location for drilling into the table
or desk.)

    About Force Feedback:
    Force feedback is a sophisticated method for providing people with
realistic tactile feedback from a PC or computer entertainment device. It has
also been widely used for a number of years in medical, space, and flight
simulators to provide lifelike training for students and professionals who
make split-second decisions based not just on sight and sound, but also on
their sense of touch.
    This cutting-edge technology has been extended to PC gaming over the last
five years, offering richer, more realistic and engaging play than the
non-directional vibration feedback to which many gamers are accustomed.
Through the use of advanced software and electronics, force feedback can move
a steering wheel or joystick as if the device were subject to real external
forces.
    Logitech force feedback products use Logitech-proprietary technologies, as
well as certain TouchSense(TM) technologies licensed from Immersion
Corporation.

    About Logitech:
    Founded in 1981, Logitech designs, manufactures and markets human
interface devices and software that link people to digital information and the
Internet and enable them to work, play, learn and communicate more effectively
in the digital world. The Company's product family includes Internet video
cameras; mice, trackballs and keyboards; audio and telephony products; and
interactive gaming controllers.
    With operational headquarters through its U.S. subsidiary in Fremont,
California, and regional headquarters through local subsidiaries in Romanel,
Switzerland, and Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., Logitech International is a Swiss
public company traded in Switzerland under the symbols LOGN and LOGZ, and in
the U.S. on the Nasdaq National Market System (LOGIY). The company has
manufacturing facilities in Asia and offices in major cities in North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific.

    About MOMO:
    MOMO was founded in the 1960s by racing driver Gianpiero Moretti. His
passion for racing led him to design a special leather steering wheel for his
car. Ferrari driver John Surtees fitted the same wheel to his car and went on
to win the world championship that year. MOMO was able to share in the glory
and quickly signed Ferrari as its first client, providing them with wheels for
all their racing cars. MOMO rapidly became world leader in the design and
supply of steering wheels and other products for luxury cars. In 37 years of
competition, MOMO wheels have been in continuous use by the most successful
drivers in all types of auto racing.  MOMO Ferrari Sp 333 won both the Daytona
24-Hour and the Sebring 12-Hour races in 1998. As recently as the 2000 racing
season, the world driver's championship was again won by a racer who prefers
to steer with a MOMO wheel. MOMO exports its products to more than 50
countries worldwide and produces 3000 steering wheels per year for