HWM Singapore — May 2017

Logitech claims the

Spotlight is the future

of digital presenters, one

that solves all the woes

of current clickers from

fumbling with buttons to

even boosting your shaky

conȴ dence.

Design-wise, the Spotlight

presenter is built like an

Apple TV remote. It has an

aluminum shell and three

large, tactile buttons.

It works directly with

your favorite presentation

software (PowerPoint,

Keynote, Google Slides,

PDF, Prezi) to directly

highlight or magnify a

section of your slides as

you point at it, making

laser pointers obsolete.

You can control over the

size of the highlighted area

and magniȴ cation ratios, it

accepts gesture commands

so you can do things like

move the remote to raise

and lower volume, and eve

bind macros to execute

complex keystrokes at the

AT A GLANCE

DIMENSIONS

131.3 x 28.1 x

12.1mm

WEIGHT

49.2g (including

battery)

CONNECTION

Bluetooth Smart /

2.4GHzwireless

BATTERY LIFE

up to 3 months

PRICE

$169

PRICE

$169

CONCLUSION

Stylish and

clever clicker,

but a little

pricey for

the one

thing it does

extremely

well.

The Presentation App is the one

that gives the Spotlight all its

powers, turning it from a standard

Bluetooth clicker into super

presenter.

press of a button. If you’re

prone to digressing during

presentations, you can also

have the Spotlight provide

vibration alerts to help you

stay on top of your timing.

Of course, all these

advanced

features come

courtesy of

the Presenter

App, which

works on both

Mac OS and

Windows.

As a

Bluetooth

device, the

Spotlight will

still work

without the

Presenter App,

but you’d only

be able to

access basic forward and

back functions, though you

can control the cursor like

an air mouse by holding

down top Spotlight button.

The other great thing about

the Spotlight is that its built-

in battery only takes one

minute of charging for up

to three hours of use. I tried

it with a completely drained

device, and by the time I

booted my notebook and

got PowerPoint ȴ red up, the

Spotlight was

ready to go.

As clever as

the Spotlight

is, I can’t help

but feel that

Logitech could

have done one

better. I would

have loved to

see a wireless

portable

mouse from

Logitech with

the same

Spotlight

features built

in. I mean, everyone uses a

mouse daily. Wouldn’t it be

cool if you could pick your

mouse up and switch to

presentation mode when

you need to, rather than

an expensive niche device



TESTED & RATED

SINGAPORE

PICTURES

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that’ll likely end up sitting in

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