Shake it like a…oh never mind.

My new obsession? The iPhone app: ShakeItPhoto. Gone are the days when you could purchase a gen-u-wine Polaroid camera and film, but have no fear, ShakeItPhoto offers a digital dose of instant-film nostalgia.

It’s easy enough: you just snap a photo with your phone (or choose one from your exisiting photo library), shake up your phone like a suburban kid who’s out of Adderall, and you instantly have a digital approximation of the real thing. The flared, hot-spot lighting is the same; the flat, seedy quality is there; and of course there’s the white border. So this should give you your fix until Polaroid re-launches in 2010. Bonus irony-points for celebrating the iconic brand via one of the digital devices that helped kill it in the first place!