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• Director shoots movie with iPhone

  Amateur filmmakers have no excuses now--film director Park Chan-Wook has just finished shooting a major motion picture with an iPhone.

• Aiptek i2 shoots 3D video on a budget

  Aiptek has introduced the i2, a pocket-sized twin lens camcorder that can record 3D video, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

• Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D HD camcorder

  Panasonic used the broiling, hectic setting of the U.S. Open tennis tourney in New York Wednesday to showcase the capabilities of its first handheld consumer-grade 3D camcorder. On a day so hot and humid that one athlete, Victoria Azarenka, collapsed and had to withdraw from competition, Panasonic showed how the US$1,400 Panasonic HDC-SDT750 handheld unit could record clear 3D video without the large and heavy hardware usually connected with 3D videography.

• Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D camcorders

  Panasonic unveiled its first two consumer camcorders capable of recording video in 3D on Wednesday.

• Panasonic to unveil consumer 3D camcorder next week

  Panasonic will next week unveil a camcorder for consumers that is capable of recording images in 3D.

• Toshiba to ship 128GB memory chip for mobile devices

  Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. today announced plans to ship a 128GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity available for smart phones, tablet PCs and digital video cameras.

• Flip Slide HD gets touchscreen, more storage

  Cisco finally announced the newest member of its Flip family, the Flip Slide HD. This newest Flip camcorder sports a three-inch resistive touchscreen for viewing your home flicks as well as 720p video, and 16GB of storage for recording up to four hours of video.

• Canon goes HD-camcorder crazy

  Despite playing a soft hand in terms of new cameras, Canon went all-in with its high-definition camcorder announcements at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

• Samsung takes on Flip with new camera lineup

  While Samsung has been making waves lately in netbooks and smartphones, they've also announced some new stuff for camera buffs.

• Sony puts two new GPS camcorders on the map

  After releasing three high-definition camcorders earlier this year with integrated GPS services from Navteq, Sony today announced two smaller, flash-drive-based additions to its GPS camcorder arsenal.