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"Quantum Leap" technology finally comes to Logitech? Game pad? Pah!

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 11 December 2008

Fans of the TV series "Quantum Link" will remember the hologram, Al, who miraculously managed to work faster than Google on an iPhone, to retrieve info on any subject over various centuries. That futuristic device has finally been unveiled (maybe).

Logitech calls it the G13, and it's a special purpose gaming keyboard - or so Logitech insists. Our spies suggest otherwise; this is the way to navigate through alternate realities, for sure.

Logitech says it's just a keyboard, USB connected, with special features for advanced game playing - including a joystick, a special display to show game messages, 25 programmable keys, and wonderfully ergnomic shape with a "naturally contoured design.

Yeah, right; every real gamer knows you can't beat a mouse and keyboard for fine control... it's the handlink! But obviously, an early, black-and-white version.

The real thing will probably appear in a decade or so. Right, Logitech?