Walking stick stick. In addition to its value as a decorative accessory, it also continued to fulfil some of the function of the sword as a weapon. The standard cane was rattan with a rounded metal grip. The clouded cane was made of malacca (rattan stems) and showed the patina of age: Some canes had specially weighted metalwork. Other types of wood, such as hickory, are equally suitable. Various staffs of office derived from walking sticks or staffs are used by both western and eastern Christian churches. In Islam the walking stick ('Asa) is considered a Sunnah and Muslims are encouraged to
Stick PC of set-top boxes to view streaming services (such as the Roku) grew, companies started looking at making these small computers even smaller and easier to use. Several Stick PCs using ARM architecture SoCs was introduced around 2012, made of stick pluggable in HDMI port, including Android Mini PC MK802 series from Rikomagic, using Android or GNU/Linux distributions, both based on Linux and Allwinner Technology or Rockchip SoC and Cotton Candy, using Samsung Exynos SoC, are probably the most famous. 2013-2014 saw several manufacturers come out with Stick PCs. MeeGoPad released the first x86 based Stick PC, featuring the Intel© Atom™