It’s a sunny Friday afternoon on the Brooklyn Bridge, yet Tarsila Ferreira is proudly holding what appears to be the shaft of an umbrella. Attached at the top: her smartphone. It’s a selfie stick, ...

Selfies, and increasingly selfie sticks, have become a global addiction, particularly among travelers who want to capture the Eiffel Tower or Taj Mahal without asking a passer-by to snap their photo.

On a fine San Francisco evening earlier this month, I was walking down Market Street with a friend who recently moved here from Hong Kong and spotted a family clustered together smiling at something ...

The selfie stick is having a moment. The act of people taking pictures of themselves has never been as ubiquitous as it is today—and consequently, everyone's trying to make money off of selfies. Sony ...

Selfie sticks. You probably either love these smartphone accessories, or hate them. If you’ve ever tried to get a good view of Niagara Falls while dodging a bristling array of selfie sticks being ...

The “selfie stick”—a small, articulated monopod designed for cell phone-wielding photographers—is, by all accounts, more popular than ever. “[Just last month], I’ve seen several around midtown ...

Earlier this month I went on a trip to South America. It fundamentally changed my understanding of the universe. No, I didn't take Ayahuasca and go on a vision quest in the Peruvian deserts. I did ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, currently running in Las Vegas, is where you go to see the ...

Some of the world’s most important museums are confirming what we’ve suspected all along but didn’t dare say: selfie sticks are stupid. If ever there was a product that preyed so heavily on our fear ...

Every selfie stick is not the same. They may look similar, but the category is remarkably diverse. Some have Bluetooth-connected shutters, some have remote control shutters; some are bendy and durable ...

Our obsession with selfies — we take millions of them a day — is finally generating something useful: innovation. World, meet the automated selfie stick. It extends, or telescopes, on its own, has a ...