He can now move his fingers and toes again, and last month doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, discovered his brain has maintained a near-normal ability to detect feeling and movement.

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Nor would HP (seemingly) be stepping on any toes if it took control of webOS again.

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For a moment I am a kid again, feeling the mud of the Chesapeake between my toes and chasing fiddler crabs down into their holes.

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