Play Thing
MEDIA CENTER PCs hook up to your TV and can replace most of your AV center. They play CDs, store and play digital music and movies and let you browse the web from your couch. Why doesn't everyone have one? Our theory: They typically don't look as if they belong in your living room. Voodoo shows the industry how to get it right with its Aria ($4,300, voodoopc.com). A user-friendly LCD touch screen set into a blazing-red chassis (one of 10 available colors) allows you to access music or surf the web when your TV is off. Inside it's supercharged with AMD's Athlon 64 processor, eight-channel audio output and dual TV tuners. And it comes with Logitech's superb Harmony universal remote.