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If you’re looking for a stylish but feature-rich keyboard and mouse combo for home or the office that won’t look out of place in either,  the newly announced Logitech Wireless Combo MK520 may be for you. The MK520 is the latest in Logitech’s line of wireless keyboard and mouse combo packages, and features a full-sized media keyboard and number pad with the new low-profile, quiet keys that Logitech has been introducing on all of its keyboard models.

The included laser-mouse is dual-handed, and while it doesn’t include Logitech’s new Darkfield technology that allows you to track on mirrored surfaces and glass, it does track on just about any other surface. The MK520 also comes with Logitech’s Unifying Receiver, the 2.4GHz wireless receiver small enough to fit and stay in a USB port even if you have to move your computer. The Wireless Combo MK520 is scheduled for release later this month and will retail for $59.99 US.

No one has created the ideal living room keyboard and mouse yet, so maybe the Phantom Wireless Lapboard and the Phantom Wireless Laser Mouse are the devices we’ve been waiting for. The keyboard opens to reveal a hard mousing surface, and can sit at an adjustable angle of anywhere from 0 to 22 degrees.

The lapboard can also rotate in either direction for left- or right-handed users. It’s targeted as the ideal controller for whenever that Internet TV revolution finally happens. The lapboard and mouse are sold as a bundle for $129.99. The mouse is a three-button laser with scroll wheel, with 1200 dpi resolution. The lapboard is slim with scissor-type keycaps. Both devices communicate with 2.4GHz RF technology at a range of 30 feet and are available in black or white. For more on the pair, go to phantom.net.

We know, we know — you’re practically married to your existing Razer or Logitech, but it looks like you may want to phone your lawyer and get the separation papers flowing. Canon — of all companies — has just introduced its latest critter, and it may very well be the most spectacular mousing device in the history of mousing devices. The unquestionably magical X Mark I Mouse is a wireless laser mouse underneath, but it also doubles as a fully functional calculator and a numeric keypad to boot. Bluetooth 2.0 is responsible for the connections, and the 1,200dpi sensor should please all but the most particular of users. It’ll also play nice with both OS X and Windows platforms, leaving us with an inexplicable need to handle one prior to the scheduled November launch date. Oh, the price? A paltry £39.99 / €48.99 / $63, but really, you’d pay anything those blokes asked to have one of your own.

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Nearly three years to the day after its original introduction, Razer’s Lachesis (also known as a sniper’s best friend) is seeing its first major upgrade. The most significant of which is the 3.5G Precision sensor, which bumps the dpi from 4,000 (previously) to 5,600 (now). For the eye-candy lovers, there’s also a functionally worthless customizable multi-color LED lighting system, but it’s bound to extract a few oohs and aahs at your next LAN party. Other than the new threads and the enhanced eye, the critter is remaining the same as it ever was, but mama always said not to worry over reinventing the (scroll) wheel. Check it later this month for $79.99, and feel free to start scoping out an appropriate burial spot for your original.

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If you’ve already got a headset, mouse or keyboard, here’s hoping they suit you just fine, because if they don’t you’ll be tempted to blow oodles of money on Logitech’s latest gaming peripheral lineup. Today, the company revealed (and is launching) the G510 keyboard, the G930 headset and G700 mouse, and while the first is merely an amalgamation of solid peripherals that have come before (customizable RGB backlighting, USB audio, 18 programmable buttons, the whole nine yards) the latter two are premium wireless products. That’s right, Logitech finally has an answer to Razer’s Mamba and Microsoft’s Sidewinder X8 with its own 2.4GHz, 1000 report-per-second hybrid wireless mouse (with thirteen programmable buttons on tap) and they’ve ripped the wires right out of the G35 surround sound headset to stuff a play n’ charge battery and two 2.4GHz antennas on board. They’ll run you a pretty penny, of course, at $160 for the headset, $120 for the keyboard and $100 for the mouse, but you’ll find out if two of the three are worth your while later today when we publish our full review. We’ll let you guess which two. Press release after the break.

Update: Logitech’s got a breakneck video rundown of all the hot new G-series features; spot it right after the break. All three products are also on Logitech’s website now, though the headset and keyboard are labeled “out of stock.”

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