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...COUCH POTATOES WebTV still hasn't caught fire, but that didn't stop America Online from pursuing its own dream of PC-TV convergence. At CES, the world's largest Internet service provider quietly unveiled AOLTV, an interactive TV service via set-top box that will introduce Instant Messages, buddy lists and AOL-style Web browsing to the boob tube by year's end. Hughes Network Systems showed a new form of its DirecTV digital satellite receiver complete with the AOLTV service, and Philips demoed a cable version. Prices were not announced, but current AOL members will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geek Gadgets Galore | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Einstein himself resisted all efforts to explore his psyche, rejecting, for example, a Freudian analyst's offer to put him on the couch. But curiosity about him continues, as evidenced by the unrelenting tide of Einstein books Amazon.com lists some 100 in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...There has to be something better to do than Partying Like It's, well, you know. Doesn't there? For the three sane people in the U.S. who are NOT going to be spending their evening as clay pigeons in the terrorist crosshairs, er, crossroads of the world, Couch Potato offers these millennial movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You're Not Doing Anything for New Year's... | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Love Got to Do With It? Director Kathryn Bigelow's action scenes are mesmerizing, but the movie itself is stranded in a dark gloomy netherworld that's part Blade Runner, part Seven, and mostly bad. And since it was penned in part by former TIME film guy Jay Cocks, Couch Potato can only hope that the dialogue was ad-libbed. "Two million years of human evolution and that's the best idea you can come up with," Lenny whines, and we heartily agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You're Not Doing Anything for New Year's... | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...your computer's USB port and wirelessly transmits a signal from your PC to any FM tuner in your house. You select which station you want to listen to with a remote control, shown below, that you can set by your side, whether you're lounging on the couch or soaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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