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the happiest place on earth is no place for selfie sticks I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene at update Disney will no longer allow selfie sticks at any of its theme parks due to safety concerns turns out the guests are unable to keep their hands arms and selfie sticks inside the vehicle at all times the Orlando Sentinel reports that when the new policy goes into effect on Tuesday security will not let these sticks pass the bag check the bag Trek has been routine at Disney parks for years now but if a selfie stick is found well the park is gonna offer to hold it for you to pick it up later guests will also be reminded of this rule at hotels and at the parking lot so they'll be encouraged to leave them in the car now this has been a growing safety problem as I guess we're pulling out the sticks during rides trying to take photos and video with the extended angle now previously Disney allowed them in the park but banned them on attractions a couple of weeks ago I took a vacation at Disney World in Orlando Florida and saw this snow selfie stick sign at the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster but clearly these signs were not enough to stop people the Orlando Sentinel reports this week a roller coaster at Disney's California Adventure Park had to be stopped when someone pulled out a stick closing the ride for an hour Disney is not the first to ban the sticks nor shall it be the last dozens of museums do not allow the sticks and the same goes for many sporting venues and music festivals people need to watch where they're swinging these things and other tales of strange tech culture you can now watch a continuous stream of gifts on your computer with tumbler TV gifs gifs however you pronounce them will be looping randomly at tumblr comm slash TV it's cycling through the ones posted to tumblr and the idea is that you'll want to find one to share with others a few weeks ago tumblr added a tool to search just for gifts but this TV thing is not an original idea jiffy another hub for looping clips also will melt your brain with never ending sequences of these fullscreen animated gems now let's end with something that's better for your brain like reading books Amazon is adding a new feed the books that you read on a Kindle or with the Kindle Android app if you highlight text you can share that book quote with others through a text message email or on a social network including Facebook Messenger and whatsapp it also lets you share to just one specific person on Facebook and when you do it gives that person free access to read a sample of the book for example share something from divergent and your friends can read bits from the start of a few chapters today it'll only work with the Kindle app for Android but it's coming to other Kindles in time that's it for this tech news roundup but there's always more at cnet.com and you can catch every update by subscribing to the podcast and I'll keep you updated on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey