This Panasonic HDC-SDT750 camcorder is very innovative. The camera is billed as the world’s first consumer 3-D camcorder.

The Panasonic HDC-SDT750 will be available in October on Panasonic’s site with a suggested price of $1,399. That’s expensive, sure, but it’s the first of its kind–nobody ever said being an early adopter would be cheap.

Apple’s latest Web browser, Safari 5.0.1, has a new extensions feature along with it, bringing a whole new level of in-browser widget power, including HTML5 greatness.

The new Safari 5.0.1 version includes a few improvements, UI adjustments and bug fixes. Its biggest treat is the addition of Safari Extensions and the associated Extensions Gallery. This has been available to developers for a month or so, although now its hitting everyone.

The Extensions are next-gen plug-ins to the browser itself. Toolbars that display live web feeds. The MS Bing extension, for example, which keeps tabs on your search efforts, by automatically suggesting searches, complete with context sensing for maps and so on, when you simply select some text in a normal web page.

Twitter’s got an official extension as well, which lets you quickly tweet about a page you’ve surfed. News minded Safari users may also like the New York Times extension, which sits in the browser and live-updates as news hits the Times’ Web page.

Extensions can be found by visiting an extensions.apple.com website, or via Safari’s own Gallery menu item, so they’re easy to find (and Apple can manage the code, somewhat akin to how it manages the App Store in iTunes, so that it can keep potentially troubling or malicious extensions away from the end-user). Is this like a Safari-specific app store? You betcha! The code that extension developers can use includes HTML5 too, so Apple’s again gently pushing the “HTML5 is the future of browsers” agenda. Mind you, with YouTube’s recent HTML5-friendly adjustments.

Apple has, as expected, lavished some upgrade love on several of its products: The Mac Pro, the iMac and the Cinema Display lineups have all been tweaked to improve their specs. The Mac Pro even got a 12-processor core option.

iMacs

Apple’s all-in-one iMac stays pretty much the same from an exterior point of view, with Apple even tagging it as “beautiful on the surface, more powerful below it.” That extra power comes from Apple’s switch to supporting Core i5 and Core i7 chips from Intel, a new architecture for Apple–and the result is the “fastest, most powerful iMac yet.” This comes partly from the quad-core architecture on the CPUs, for which OS X Snow Leopard is already primed to maximize thanks to the task-sharing powers of the Grand Central code, and partly from a switch to new graphics cards. The base option for graphics is now an ATI Radeon HD 4670 discrete card, which Apple is careful to note “delivers faster performance compared to the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Processor in the previous-generation iMac.” There’s also the option to add HD 5670 or HD 5750 units in instead, bringing some serious graphics power to the iMac.

What can you use this graphics power for? Apple goes out of its way to mention gaming on the new iMac Apple web page, giving a call-out to Call of Duty 4 and EVE. The company evidently hopes its popular iMac can now, with some serious boosts to silicon power (dual-core speeds up to 3.6GHz and quad-core up to 2.93 GHz), compete in the games PC market–a space Apple’s not been particularly conspicuous in.

This is a power move from Amazon. Amazon and Facebook today announced a new partnership, using Facebook Connect, that combines the best of both companies. You can buy from Amazon for people you know on Facebook. It seems a smart move from Amazon.

The partnership manifests itself in a totally opt-in system on Facebook, seeing as how Amazon will have access to so much information about you if you opt in, which not everyone will want. Amazon are saying that they will neither contact any of your Facebook friends nor reveal account (purchasing) history.

YouTube today started testing a new form of embedding code that would support both Flash and HTML5. Using iframes, the technique will either revert to the familiar Flash plugin or switch to HTML5 depending on the browser and device. It will only force Flash when the video requires features HTML5 can’t yet handle, such as ad overlays….