CNN
ATLANTA — March 1, 2008. That was the day that life, as Jason Koger knew it, changed. The husband and young father was riding his four wheeler when he came in contact with a downed powerline. Next thing he remembers, waking up in the hospital three days later.
He was alive, but both his hands were gone. They’d had to be amputated.
But Koger didn’t let that new reality get him down. His focus immediately, making life with prosthetic as normal as possible. Five years now after the accident, Koger is embracing another first. He’s the first double-hand amputee in the world to receive prosthetic hands that can be controlled with a mobile application. This is part of a new wave in prosthetic technology. The eye-limb ultra revolution are now available to the masses.
The UK based developers say it is the closest thing to a real human hand. Unlike most conventional prosthetics, this hand boasts five individually powered finger including a fully rotatable thumb.
The new app technology allows for 24 additional grip patterns, movements that many of us take for granted like this, a tripod grip to pick up a pen.
The skin over the prosthesis helps double amputees like Jason use the app. And he can even customize grip patterns to use tools like his electronic grill.