Also slightly cumbersome is the cable that trails the headset like a tail -- any demo that involved walking around required having an employee lift the cables and walk around as if you were wearing some Victorian bridal gown.

ENGADGET: Canon MREAL Mixed Reality headset hands-on (video)

When Berenice brought the biscuit man from the oven, they saw that it looked exactly like any biscuit man ever made by a child it had swelled so that all the work of John Henry had been cooked out, the fingers were run together, and the walking stick resembled a sort of tail.

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It also had toes suited to walking along the ground and fewer feathers on its tail and lower legs, which would have made it easier to run.

BBC: Eosinopteryx

It would have been a meat-eater, walking on two legs about the size of a large cow, with a tail.

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