It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas --- 2007, that is.

While we're all jazzed about LCD and plasma TVs this year, a report in Technology Review notes that Mitsubishi and Samsung are expecting to have laser TVs on store shelves by Christmas 2007.

The TV features a flat-panel display that uses high-powered lasers to light up the screen.

(No, not like the laser in Goldfinger; thanks www.imdb.com.)

No word on pricing, but don't you think it will be pricey?

(And after so many of us have stepped up to new TVs this holiday season, how many will be in the mood next year.)

Well, if you love gadgets ...