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...have been invented as a way to network PCs, but it is turning into a boon for all sorts of household products. Wireless networks let you shuttle pictures, music and video from device to device, anywhere in the house--or even in the backyard. Best of all, you don't have to rip open walls and ceilings to hide cables. For your pleasure, here's a sampling of the latest crop of wireless appliances...
...HAND Dell's first Axim drove down the price of no-frills Pocket PCs. The Axim X3 picks up the pace with a 400-MHz chip, 64 MB of memory and wi-fi for Web surfing at hot spots...
That's the idea behind a new online service called There, which launches next week for Windows PCs ($50 a year at there.com) Think of it as a 3-D chat room: your onscreen characters talk as you type, with speech balloons coming out of their heads. They blink, breathe and nod when you type yes. Start throwing in actions like winking, yawning, gasping, even burping--and what you've got is conversation that looks like a cartoon yet feels uncannily real...
Napster, the original MP3 gangster, is back on a server near you, this time as a legal pay-per-download and subscription music service for Windows PCs. The official relaunch is Oct. 29, but a TIME test run shows that Napster 2.0 has got the rock to draw a crowd. The service will launch into stiff competition; this week Apple is expected to debut a Windows version of its highly successful (and until now Mac-only) iTunes Music Store...
Harman Multimedia JBL Creature ($129 at harmanmultimedia.com). Alien pods or computer hardware? The JBL Creature is hands down the most stylish speaker system available for PCs. These little guys land on your desk and provide surprisingly high-quality sound. A mothership subwoofer stays on the ground and provides solid dorm-room party bass. With three sexy colors to choose from—brushed-steel silver, metallic blue and white— these are the must-have speakers for all you pimped-out computer nerds...