So this week is like a second Christmas for gadget geeks like myself. Not only is the International Consumer Electronics Show going on right now in Las Vegas, but Macworld is going on in San Francisco. This means a flood of new electronics and gadgets for me to drool over.

The biggest news of the week is of course the iPhone. If you haven’t seen what this little wonder can do, stop reading this now and go watch the demos on the Apple website. It is about as close to a perfect all-in-one device as you can get. There are a few flaws (price, locked to Cingular, no 3G data) but all in all it is amazing. It amazes me how Apple can revolutionize the computer industry and the consumer electronics industry while Microsoft takes 5 years to put out a new operating system. Mac OSX is far better and easier to use than any version of Windows, and Apple still manages to develop superior computer hardware which is something Microsoft has never done. Apple doesn’t have a video game system so the Xbox wins by default, but who will argue that Microsoft’s Zune is superior in any way to the iPod?

Another interesting development this week is the announcement of a partnership of TiVo and Comcast cable to put TiVo software in Comcast cable boxes. This would be a really great development for me personally. I have a Comcast cable box that basically sits there and does nothing because I use my TiVo exclusively. The possibility of combining the TiVo software and some of the appealing features of Comcast cable like OnDemand movies makes me very excited. If the price is reasonable, and with the way TiVo has been hiking prices it won’t be hard, I think we may be switching off our dedicated TiVo box sometime later this year.