Motorcyclist Alex Charon used a GoPro on a selfie-stick in order to take a snap of all that he experienced during a round-the-world trip, travelling from barren deserts to lush forests and visiting over 36 countries.
2014, Kam Leong Heng, "The more the merrier", Harvest Force, Issue 2, July 2014, page 1:
Then, there was like a light-bulb moment when she discovered selfies. And recently, she saw a new gadget - the ultimate monopod that extends its arm and holds her smartphone at the other end. Yex, it is theselfie stick!
The coffee shop also offers free wi-fi, and being one of Gensan's selfie hotspots, which the establishment effectively supports, wherein they provide selfie sticks or mono pads[sic] for all their clients[sic] selfie needs.
But the scene takes a vertigo-enducing turn when photographer Daniel Lau changes the camera angle using a "selfie stick" - a retractable pole on which the camera is mounted - to reveal that they are, in fact on top of a building.
After parking just off the main road, I waded my way through a throng of selfie stick-and[sic] designer suitcase-toting Asian tourists towards the meeting point, […]
2014 8 December, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), →ISBN, pages 176-177:
We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)
While basic selfie sticks require a camera timer to take a shot, the fancier versions come with Bluetooth remotes or handle buttons to snap the shutter.
2015, Yoo Jin Kwon and Kyoung-Nan Kwon, "Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self", Asian Social Science, January 2015, page 310:
The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.
2015 1 February, Dani K., Footballers and Louboutins, Libertine Press (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Just then she pulled a selfie stick out of her Mulberry and started taking numerous selfies of us in the limo.
2015 1 April, Adi Kuntsman & Rebecca Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age, Stanford University Press (2015), →ISBN, page 105:
The growing popularity in Israel of so-called selfie sticks, enabling mobile self-portraiture from arm's length, has further complicated the genre.
2015 1 April, Michael Grosberg, Greg Bloom, Trent Holden, Anna Kaminski, & Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet: Philippines, Lonely Planet (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Thus the key question: have you packed your compass, your snorkel, or your selfie stick?
2021 January 8, Sabrina Tavernise, Matthew Rosenberg, “These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
In the Crypt, people walked around taking photographs of the statues and themselves with their phones. One man had a selfie stick, like a tourist in a foreign land.
