It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Loading Something is loading. Email address. On their return, he began researching umbrella technology. Aimed at the adventurous traveller, Fromm's product is impervious to sand and water and has all sorts of extras, like quick-release heads - to avoid the indignity of answering calls with the selfie stick still attached.
Fromm disclosed Ueda's extender in his patent as "prior art", but he believes the current selfie stick craze is a direct result of his own model. There's lots of knock-offs of my product that actually have my daughter's picture on the packaging. The factories have been studying my product all of these years, basically stealing the photos as well," he says. Fromm's product, unlike Ueda's, has sold well, but there are plenty of others profiting from it too, by producing cheap knock-offs.
So many, in fact, that it is impossible to pursue them all. It basically went viral and it would be a waste of my emotional energy to start fighting the world over this sort of thing," he says. Besides, says Fromm, for inventors like him and Ueda it's not all about the money.
So I'm happy that the world has embraced the selfie stick. But has anything been lost? What about that brief interaction between strangers, the kind exchange of a favour?
Fromm doesn't miss it. It was while scanning mail-order catalogues that Kenji Kawakami came up with the idea of chindogu - Japanese for "strange tools". He has thought up hundreds of bizarre and absurd items such as funnel glasses to guide eye drops or the train nap cap to avoid head-lolling while asleep on public transport. The International Chindogu Society also keeps an eye out for unlikely inventions that are a reality - like the suitcase scooter. Listen again on iPlayer or get the Outlook podcast.
Image source, Getty Images. Image source, Hiroshi Ueda. Hiroshi Ueda captures his family on holiday using his invention, the extender stick. Fromm is taking precautions to ensure that the same thing does not happen with his new device, he told CBC News in Canada.
When it premieres on The Shopping Channel later this spring, the Selfie Stick It could become an excellent way to snap group shots—whether users choose to take pictures indoors or affix their phones to cars, walls, or rocks outside. In recent years, selfie sticks have been banned from Disney World and several museums around the world after tourists went to extreme and meddlesome ways to snap memorable selfies. By Cailey Rizzo February 22,
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