Logitech’s G13 Gaming Board Uses One Hand

The customizable gaming keyboard offers players 25 backlit keys within reach of one hand, and an LCD for game stats.

Logitech is certainly no stranger to gaming keyboards. After establishing itself with the G15 and G11 in years past, the company added a radical new one-handed version to the G-series on Tuesday with the announcement of the G13 Advanced Gameboard.

Designed as a game-centric supplement to the traditional mouse-and-keyboard layout, the G13 offers players 25 programmable keys within reach one of on hand, a contoured design, plus an LCD for displaying data like live stats, system info, and chat messages from other players.

The keyboard has also been tuned with a handful of other features specific to gamers, like a home row with large concave buttons for locating it blind, a heavy design to keep it from sliding on a desk, and backlit keys to play in the dark. Gamers can also assign macros to the individual keys, to make them perform complex tasks with one click. There’s even a micro joystick for left-handed thumb use.

The G13 will go on sale in December with a price tag of $80.