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Posted Sunday, January 23, 2005; 11:27 GMT
It's easy to imagine a late-night infomercial for Logitech's newest business tool, the Cordless 2.4-GHz Presenter, because it performs the PowerPoint equivalent of slicing and dicing. Mainly it's a remote for Microsoft's presentation software that lets you launch a show and advance through slides, then fade to black. You can raise the volume remotely if you have multimedia slides. You can do all that while roaming around a room — as much as 15 m from your laptop — because the device talks to a receiver plugged into the USB jack.

For the long-winded exec, the Presenter has a timer that counts down, vibrating in your hand when time's almost up. Available at logitech.com in February, this little gizmo lacks just one thing — what paid-programming pitchmen call a low-low price. It will cost around $80.





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