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# The origin of the selfie stick
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/03/selfie-stick-inventor/
- Published: 2015-03-27T23:13:24.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:31:22.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: inventions, photography, selfie, selfie stick

The selfie stick actually predates the smartphone:

> My daughter, Sage, and I were travelling. She was young, and we were actually in Italy, at the Pontevecchio, and she was taking a picture of me. I was taking a picture of her, and then \[we were\] trying to flag down somebody who understands English, which is not always . . . \[We’d\] have to wait to see who might be likely, someone wearing a camera, maybe. Or I’d stabilize it on a fencepost of some sort and set the self-timer and have to run in to the shot. I kept thinking, “There’s got to be a better way.”

A [fascinating interview](http://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/qa-the-selfie-sticks-unsung-canadian-inventor/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) with a man with a reasonable claim to be the inventor of the [Wand of Narcissus](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wand+of+Narcissus&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)…