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Tourists vying for the best selfie spot start a fight at Rome’s Trevi Fountain
All selfies lead to Rome.
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Engg student dies while taking selfie in TN, hit by train he wanted in backdrop
A 21-year-old engineering student died when he was hit by a speeding train while trying to click a selfie here in the wee hours on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred past midnight when the student was returning after celebrating New Year, they said.
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The Roam-e Flying Selfie drone camera from Australia takes 360-degree shots
Ever feel bothered by the same old boring selfie poses because your hand is permanently attached to your camera? Well this Australian-made Roam-e Flying Selfie drone camera should help you get a bit more creative, if you can stomach the fact that it looks like a flying carrot. Retailing at $399 (around £300) online and AU$499 in Australia , the Roam-e Flying Selfie features a 1080p camera and uses facial recognition technology to follow its owner around and is capable of avoiding objects.
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A Selfie-bration! The best, the worst, the funniest, the most dangerous, the tackiest
Selfies are creating a generation of narcissists. Here’s an ode to their self-absorption.
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Wash. man accidentally killed himself while taking a selfie with his gun, police say
It wasn’t the first photo the 43-year-old Concrete, Wash. resident had taken with his gun. But it would be the last. The Skagit Valley Herald reported Wednesday that the man, who officials did not name, fatally shot himself in the face while attempting to take a selfie with what he thought was an unloaded gun.
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Dolphin Dies Being Passed Around For Selfies
A young dolphin has died after beachgoers took it from the sea to pose for photographs with it. Huge crowds gathered around the small animal on the beach resort at Santa Teresita in Argentina after one man picked it up. But it appears it quickly overheated and died while out of the water. It was still being passed around by the beachgoers after its death and was later left discarded in the sand.
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The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities
Since 2014, at least 49 deaths have been precipitated by taking a selfie. Breaking down the data behind them yields an interesting story.
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Male Models Took Selfies on the Dolce & Gabbana Catwalk.
It was during the brand's Autumn 2016 show.
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More people have died from selfies than shark attacks this year
A 66-year-old Japanese tourist has died, and his travel companion has been injured, after falling down stairs while attempting to take a selfie at the Taj Mahal. The man's death raises the selfie-related death toll this year — to 12. To put that in perspective, in 2015 there have so far been eight deaths caused by shark attacks.
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An Interview with Selfie Stick Inventor Wayne Fromm
Wayne Fromm is a Canadian inventor who’s widely recognized as being one of the main inventors of the selfie stick (with the other being Hiroshi Ueda of Japan). Fromm holds original patents for selfie sticks created for compact cameras and smartphones, and he current sells selfie sticks through his Quik Pod brand. In this interview, we spoke to him about his involvement in (and thoughts about) the selfie stick boom...
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These Selfies Document One Kid's Third Wheel Experience. Sad or Funny?
Is this the saddest story ever told--or is it pretty common and someone just decided to document it?It’s actually fairly typical. There's even a statistic on it. It’s not as high as 50% but at least 20% of the kids growing up in nearly any generation turn out to be the third wheel. If you were one of those third wheel kids, doesn’t it want to make you sit down and talk to your younger self about life and how the third wheel needs to get a car of his own?Here’s the scenario: this kid who...
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The Pop Stick: A selfie stick you can snap to your wrist
A waterproof wristband that pops up into a selfie stick to help you take bigger, better selfies.
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Warning: 'Cool Selfie Could Cost Your Life'
A campaign uses road sign-style warning signs to highlight the dangers when taking personal photos in hazardous scenarios.
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Japan Airlines pilot suspended after taking selfie with a stewardess at 10,000 feet
The pilot, 47, seated the 28-year-old attendant in the co- pilot’s chair and snapped a selfie after the plane had climbed to 10,000 feet
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The Dangers of Selfie Sticks PSA
The Big Flavor Dipper Pizza: you're gonna need a bigger selfie stick.Please Selfie Responsibly. These egotistical specimens of visual self-obsession are in danger. Help protect them by sharing this video with any fabulous narce artists who suffer from selfie stick abuse. Pizza Hut is a supporter of those suffering from selfie stick abuse.
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25 Most Dangerous Selfies Ever!
Craziest selfies ever! These are some of the most epic extreme selfies of daredevils involving sharks, skyscrapers, trains, and more.Today we look at the 25 most dangerous selfies ever! From Sharks to Skyscrapers to Volcano’s you won’t believe what people will do to snap a pic. This selfie was taken by Kirill Oreshkin known as the Russian Spiderman on top of the Moscow State University tower. You get the idea...
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The Rock Sets a World Record
Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson has set a Guinness World Record. No, it’s not the record for being the most electrifying man in sports entertainment or having the largest biceps in North America...
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Selfie typewriter hammers out ASCII portraits
Dimitry Morozov, better known as vtol, is a Russian musician, engineer and artist who decided that selfies were far too modern for his liking. Instead, he wanted people to wait for their gratification, and so hooked up an iSight camera to an Arduino-controlled Brother sx-4000 typewriter. Once a person sticks their face in front of the machine, named i/o, the typewriter painstakingly hammers out a portrait in ASCII art.
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How the selfie stick was invented twice
Two men on opposite sides of the world invented the selfie stick - and first of them did it way back in the early 1980s.
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Paramedic Took Selfie With Dying Patient, Wrote ‘Another Moron’
A paramedic has been sacked after a series of offensive selfies with her and dying patients emerged online. Tatiana Kulikova, 25, posted one image and captioned it ‘another moron’ as someone lay dying next to her – who she should have been helping. She was instantly sacked from her job in Russia after officials saw the photos on her Instagram account.
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