When you're online, you can swing over to Scotland for the British Open Championship golf classic or a walk around the links at Royal Troon. Once on the links, you can choose to compose your own player, or you can play as one of eight professional golfers such as Vijay Singh, Chip Beck, Ian Baker-Finch and David Duval. The players look pretty real on the screen and sometimes even whack their clubs on the ground when they miss a putt or birdie. And you get a visual caddy who gives advice. The Desktop Safari by Educational Insights looks like a sophisticated desk accessory, but it's also an intellectual plaything that has more than 3,000 facts to reveal.
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Programs let you delve into the life of insects, animals, history, geography and science. It's a hit with kids from age 8 to 98. Eric Miller and Jeff Borne have just opened a showroom in Harahan where you can see and hear all that Bose has to offer. It also comes with five very small cube speaker arrays, an Acoustimass module for deep base and Videostage steering logic to make it all crisp and easy. For information on computer and video products, check your favorite computer or camera store.