Func Industries announces the launch of Func Custom Gear

Rocklin, California, July 24, 2006 – Func Industries LLC, a leading provider of precision mousing surfaces for competitive gaming and other professional PC applications, is offering online customers the ability to fully customize products using their own uploaded graphics, in addition to a growing selection of images. The Func Custom Gear utility initially features four sizes of Func’s award-winning gaming mouse pads for customers to choose from with additional products scheduled for inclusion later this year.

The Func Custom Gear utility provides customers with the ability to create their own mousing surfaces by choosing their own surface texture, uploading their favorite screenshots, images, logos and pictures, as well as adding personalized text. For an additional charge of $5-6 USD above the standard retail versions of the products, Func Custom Gear features include:

• The ability to choose which surface texture is applied to the product
• The ability to upload high-resolution images, logos, screenshots, and pictures
• The ability to add personalized text
• No minimum order quality requirements – buy 1 or buy 20
• Four sizes of mousing surfaces to choose from

In conjunction with the launch on the Func.net official web site, Func is also enabling partners to implement the Func Custom Gear utility into their own sites which will allow end-users to find unique content that is exclusive to the partner site.

“Not only does the Func Custom Gear utility offer a great opportunity for individuals, or gaming teams and clans to show off their unique logo/designs when competing at LAN events,” says Craig Rogers, President and CEO of Func Industries, “but it also provides a powerful tool for game developers, publishers, professional gamers, and other unique content providers to offer high-quality, customizable merchandise to their respective communities.”

ABOUT FUNC INDUSTRIES

Func Industries helped ignite the competition PC gaming accessory market when it was established in 1999 to design and manufacturer high-end peripherals for the professional computer user. Since then, Func has received numerous awards for product excellence including PC Gamer’s Editors Choice Award, Maximum PC’s ‘Kick Ass Product’ Award, Thresh’s FiringSquad Editors Choice Award, Gamespy’s Planet Hardware Editor’s Choice Award, and TechTV called the sUrface1030 the “King of all Mousepads”. Func gaming mouse pads are also included with some of the world’s most renowned high performance computer systems, including Alienware and VoodooPC notebook and desktop system