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Logitech´s Premium MOMO™ 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, England (ECTS — Booth 1640) — September 2, 2001 -- Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGIY) (Switzerland: LOGN, LOGZ), 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™ 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™ technologies licensed from Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ: IMMR).

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 competitions and races alone.

Logitech, the Logitech logo, and other Logitech marks are owned by Logitech and may be registered. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information about MOMO and its products, visit www.momo.it