How selfie-stick bans reveal a relevance crisis for art institutions
Music festivals, museums and galleries have been instituting bans of selfie sticks. That’s actually a good thing—for people who love a good selfie.
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Q&A: The selfie stick’s unsung Canadian inventor
It’s not about you: Wayne Fromm, the creator of the selfie stick, and his daughter explain its origin stories and speak out against counterfeiters
Inventor James Dyson: ’The path to discovery is full of mistakes’
For example, he once made 5,127 prototypes of a vacuum
5 Canadian space inventions (that aren’t the Canadarm)
Canadian innovations have played a major role in space exploration, almost from the very beginning
12 things you didn’t know were invented by Canadians
The paint roller, highway lines, the Wonderbra and more