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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...
...music jukebox. This year's update enhances the photo slide show and adds a radio tuner. Better yet are two movie-download services and a program that lets you burn DVDs by using just the remote control. The user interface could still be improved, but with living-room-friendly PCs coming from Dell, Gateway and others, even DVD-equipped TiVos will face stiff competition this holiday season...
...Inside, amenities include an updated Palm OS, 32-MB of onboard memory and a processor four times as fast as the Treo 300's. Of course, you'll still have to contend with the cramped little keyboard. Expect the phone to sell for around $550 in mid-October; Sprint PCS will be the first to offer service. GSM versions offered by Cingular and T-Mobile are expected to follow...