South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales

Rambo Tribble writes "South Korea has instituted large fines for selling unregistered "selfie-sticks". The problem arises because many of the devices are using Bluetooth radio spectrum, and must be certified to do so legally. Expressing doubts that the regulations and stiff fines will influence sales, one official said of them, "It's not going to affect anything in any meaningful way, but it is nonetheless a telecommunication device subject to regulation, and that means we are obligated to crack down on uncertified ones."

Comments

Selfie Stick?

[Bigbutt]

For those of us who don't know, a "selfie stick" is just a long pole or boom with a mount for a phone so you can take a picture from farther away or without the phone being in the picture.

I've seen them mostly for folks riding on the dirt where they have a GoPro or something on the end and are taking shots of the front of the vehicle zooming through the dirt.

[John]

Re:Selfie Stick?

[Anonymous Coward]

In this case, it is a a long pole including a bluetooth trigger to take the picture.

Re:Fuuuuuck

[Pentium100]

Some of my old film cameras have a feature where I can press a button and then the camera takes a picture after some time - usually long enough for me to get back in front of the camera.

Re:Fuuuuuck

[lgw]

"-man" as a suffix is gender neutral, usually. "-person" etc just misunderstand the etymology.

The old English roots are:
* "man", meaning roughly "human", any age or sex
* "wer", adult male (survives in a few words like virile and werewolf)
* "wif", adult female (of any marital status)

Over time we lost the male-specific word, with "man" doing double-duty for male and neuter meanings, while the original meaning of "wif" became "wif-man" became "woman".