While Sergeant Payne searched through his keys, I noticed the remote-control camera mounted on an art nouveau lamp standard in the center of The Avenue.

"You have remote-control cameras, long distance microphones, cellular phones - all perfectly legal - that can be operated by one person with a modem, who can spy on you from his own home."

In some buildings, remote-control cameras can be installed to keep building personnel in the lobby informed of rooftop activities and conditions.

Moreover, the remote-control cameras allow television stations to avoid wasting time and money getting shots of the city skyline or pretty sunsets - the "beauty shots" that stations often use as backdrops to weather reports.

With the permission of the Arizona Supreme Court and the consent of all the involved parties, the network placed remote-control cameras in a jury room.

Explorers travelled hundreds of miles in the depths of symmetriads, and installed measuring instruments and remote-control cameras.

The move came three days after the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq withdrew its inspectors from Baghdad because they were prevented from installing remote-control cameras to monitor activity at the missile sites.

A surveillance-company technician with access to nine high-powered, remote-control rotating cameras is quoted as saying that "if you can see the Empire State Building, we can see you."

"I couldn't describe it to you," Commander Town said, referring to the grisly underwater landscape of jet debris and shattered bodies that he saw through a remote-control camera.

He stayed like that for almost a quarter of an hour, while the emotionless eye of the remote-control camera watched him from the trees.