The Consumer Electronics Show is going on now, showcasing all the new toys that will be coming to market in the near and distant future. I am not much of an early adopter and most new gadgets have to go through a couple iterations and a few price cuts before I buy in. There are exceptions to that (like how I bought a Nintendo Wii as soon as I could when it came to market), and I get burned soemtimes when I finally do buy in and something much better is introduced shortly thereafter, but generally my strategery works for me.

That’s part of the reason why I didn’t want to buy an Apple iPhone for the woman who lives in my house for Christmas. For one thing, it’s an Apple. For another, it’s pretty fuckin expensive weighing in at $400. For another, that woman in my house is a technological retard.

But because I’m too good to her I got an iPhone for her anyway, along with a $25 iTunes gift card. She has not put that thing down since Christmas day. She’s rocking out to Hannah Montana with the girl on iTunes, she’s using her Gmail account to e-mail people for the first time, she’s watching japanese episodes of Naruto on YouTube, she’s taking pictures, she’s texting, she surfing the web. Of course, she’s bitching about speed when she needs to rely on ATT’s shitty EDGE network away from WiFi, but that’s pretty much par for everyone.

I also find myself picking her iPhone up and playing with it if it happens to be sitting around, although that’s generally only while the woman who lives in my house is sleeping or showering.

So, grudgingly, I have to concede that the Apple iPhone is probably the single coolest piece of technology I ran across in 2007. It turns tech ‘tards into pros. And you can use it as a phone.

God, it hurts me to type that.