The must-have gift? A selfie stick: How poles for cameras are flying off the shelves

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 15, 2014 | Staff

[C19fan]

They are this year’s must-have Christmas presents for selfie-obsessed Britons. So-called ‘selfie-sticks’ that allow camera phones to be extended up to a metre away for group shots and panoramic images are flying off the shelves. While the selfie might have gone mainstream in 2014, it now appears that simply taking a picture of yourself and others with your smartphone is passe.

[C19fan]

/grumpy cat mode on/Wonderful..../grumpy cat mode off/ Now we get to deal with bumping into people doing the selfie on a stick walk. What I hate about smart phones is you have a group of 10 people and everyone must take the same photo/selfie at a nice picture spot.

[taxcontrol]

America, thy sin is vanity.

[Jack Hydrazine]

DIY Selfie Stick for camera or GoPro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_K2zsgsbk

[Steely Tom]

Loosie stick.

[dfwgator]

[Gaffer]

I’d really like to have a top line GoPro. But $400 is a little bit much for me.

I guess I have to get on EBT to have one, huh? Do they have Obama GoPro’s yet?

[Cowboy Bob]

Can it be used to take pictures up women’s skirts??

[Salamander]

Love this comment

"I prefer to call it a "narcissistick"."

[Jack Hydrazine]

Get a Turnigy for $100.

https://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__66581__Turnigy_HD_WiFi_ActionCam_1080P_Full_HD_Video_Camera_w_Waterproof_Case.html

[Calvin Locke]

But the photo of a couple using it in a recent Bed, Bath, & Beyond flyer was so enticing.

Then I remembered using the timer with the then-wife on vacation a number of times.

That brings to mind the consequence of asking somebody as Clarke W. Griswold did in "European Vacation", to the price of the "monopod" might be quite cheap in comparison.

And that such snaps can be used by psycho killers presenting slide shows, asking "Do you see?"

[IamConservative]

We are able to hold in our hand a device that will give us instant access to the collective knowledge of mankind. What do we do with it? Take vanity portraits to post for others to look at.

[Boogieman]

Just wait until I release my “selfie drone” next year. It will follow you around all day, hovering and taking selfies of you from every angle.

[wally_bert]

A lumix will come first hopefully right around Christmas. A go pro maybe later. If the lumix lives up to the reviews, I will part with the Canon stuff.

[Chode]

LOLOL!!! glad there wasn't any coffee in my mouth...

[sheana]

I am on FB to stay in contact with all the relatives back east. I have very few relatives left where I am. I almost have an obsession now though. If one of them posts too many selfies I unfriend them. lol Just can’t help myself. Makes me instantly dislike them.

[gov_bean_ counter]

You're so-oh vain
You probably think this
selfie's about you
don't you
don't you???

[dainbramaged]

A Selfie? It should be called a Lonely.

[Charles Martel]

America, thy sin is vanity.

That's one of the big ones, for sure. However, this device is late coming to our shores. The Pacific Rim nations have been going crazy for these things for a while now.

I'll bet it was invented in Japan, you know how they are with photography stuff.

[Jack Hammer]

Had a selfie stick years ago, when I was an adolescent, then I met a girl and....

Oh, wait a minute.

Never mind.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Nutty Tourist Tries To Take Selfie With A Monkey, But Things Go HORRIBLY Wrong
http://joeforamerica.com/2014/12/nutty-tourist-tries-take-selfie-monkey-things-go-horribly-wrong/