One of the more entertaining posts we wrote up at last year's CES was for the Golden-i, a head-mounted computer that lets field workers control their machines using voice commands and by moving their heads.

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Thieves forced open doors to Sworder's Auctioneers in Stansted Mountfitchet on Monday evening and fled with the mounted rhino head via a nearby field.

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The Sideline camera angle provides field-level views of the action from a camera mounted on a cart.

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If needed, staff in a control centre can see and hear everything the field engineer is seeing and hearing via the camera and microphone mounted on the robot arm.

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The villagers mounted a 24-hour blockade to prevent the gypsies from bringing building supplies into the field (the courts later forced them to allow sewerage works).

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