Mobcast offers a cloud-based service that lets customers build up an eBook library collection without being locked-in to one single device.

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First, Dr Sobel's team rigged up the device to allow people who suffer from locked-in syndrome to communicate, by dictating text onto a computer screen using coded patterns of sniffing.

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