Some look like hands. Some are spoons. But they are all, at the end of the day, one thing: A stick that takes selfies." The selfie stick was listed in Time magazine's 25 best inventions of 2014. While the New York Post named the selfie stick the most controversial gift of 2014. At the end of December 2014, Bloomberg News noted that selfie sticks had ruled the 2014 holiday season as the “must-have” gift of the year.