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Tilt-shift photography can be a really expensive undertaking. Then again you can simulate the effect in Photoshop, but it just isn't the same. This is a great project to make that will save you a lot of money compared to the commercial versions.

I know there are people out there who would love to experiment with a PC Shift lens, but the cost of purchasing one is generally prohibitive unless you plan to shoot professionally with the lens. (A nikon shift lens with tilt functions cost over $1000, BTW: The Nikon guys once took a look over this and said, "why would you do that to such a nice camera? We sell that lens you know." I know. That's the point).

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From the pages of MAKE:

In MAKE 09 we show you how to make your own! Tilt-Shift Photography - page 144. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 09 in the Maker store - Link.

Todd Lappin, of Telstar Logistics, made this sweet mobile home bar from an old SAS airline galley cart he got in an aircraft boneyard.

The Beautiful Utility of Airline Galley Carts

A snow globe is old tech.  An iPhone is new tech.  Put them together and you’d think you’d get broken tech, but if you’re Daljit Singh then you actually end up with the Digital Snow Globe.  Sensibly avoiding water, the project is basically an elongated snow globe housing an iPhone; when you shake the globe, the iPhone displays the weather from a randomly-selected city.

Frankly it looks like one of those products you’d see advertized in the catalogs found in airline seat pockets, but that’s probably being unfair.  Anyway, it’s unlikely that the Digital Snow Globe will ever reach the market, being more of an arty piece.

Details of the exact workings are scant; there’s no mention of it on the Digit London site.  Presumably it’s a custom program that uses the iPhone’s accelerometer and internet connection to randomly download city weather information and couple that with a twee picture of the location.

[via designboom]

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Feel the need to use a mobile check-in service for the next time you’re going abroad? If you’re flying British Airways, now you can. The British airliner has just launched a new mobile check-in service for customers to avail with any mobile device from any point in the world, and it’s available in 11 different languages.

This is a great service especially for those who are always on the go and yet manage to stay connected to the Web. What’s more, you don’t need a fancy handset to access the service, anything with a connection to the Internet and mobile web browser will do.

British Airways is the first UK airline ever to provide such a service in 11 languages. And the best part is that it is very straight-forward, easy to use, and free. Simply go to http://www.ba.com/mobile on your mobile device to get a feel of how it works.

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