Solar GPS Cow Hats Let Cowboys Stay Indoors

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and MIT are co-developing special cow hats that enable cowboys to stay indoors and track and HERD COWS USING A PC. The headsets power themselves with solar panels, and built in GPS units and communications electronics track and relay each cow's location back to a central server. If cows wander beyond a pre-determined area, sounds played by speakers in the device coaxes them back. If that doesn't work, electric shocks do. Mouse-wielding cow-pokes can also manually control herds by pointing and clicking. The first trials of the system will happen later this month.