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I want to show you something that's truly remarkable.

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It's a bionic limb that's run in part by a basic household technology, really an iPhone.

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We're gonna get a demonstration of this in just a moment.

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But, first, I want to introduce you to the world's first recipient of these hands.

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He's a young father who lost the use of both of his hands after being electrocuted [shocked].

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March 1st, 2008. That was the day that life, as Jason Koger knew it, changed.

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The husband and young father was riding his four-wheeler when he came in contact with a downed power line.

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Next thing he remembers, waking up in the hospital three days later.

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He was alive but both of his hands were gone. They had to be amputated.

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Koger didn't let that new reality get him down.

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His focus immediately -- making life with prosthetics as normal as possible.

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Five years now after the accident, Koger is embracing another first.

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He's the first double-hand amputee in the world to receive prosthetic hands that can be controlled with a mobile application.

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This is part of a new wave in prosthetic technology.

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The i-Limb Ultra Revolution are now available to the masses.

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The UK-based developers say it is the closest thing to a real human hand.

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Unlike most conventional prosthetics, this hand boasts five individually powered fingers, including a fully rotatable thumb.

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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.

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The skin over the prosthesis helps double-amputees like Jason use the app,

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and he can even customize grip patterns to use tools like his electronic drill.

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And Jason Koger joins us now. Welcome to the show.

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Thank you very much.

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That's an incredible story. I'm glad you're doing well.

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Do you have pain at all or are you fully recovered from that standpoint?

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I'm fully recovered, so...

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I used to shake my guest's hands, and you can do this as well. Take a look there. That's pretty incredible.

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I don't know if you see this, but look around the back over here, as well. I mean, this is a true handshake.

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That's right.

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You're really... the fingers coming all the way around.

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It's incredible technology. And I know this... you literally have just gotten this technology this week.

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How's it going? What's your impression?

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You know, I love it. These have motorized thumbs.

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It has an app that comes with it so that you can do several different grasp patterns.

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It... you know, it gives me the ability to do more things that I want to do.

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It really take... it looks like it takes full advantage of lots of different...

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because you take for granted how much, you know, dexterity you have in your fingers.

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And just for sake of reference, I mean, these are two of your other hands as well over here.

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And I think you were explaining that this basically has the pinch here between this. And that's basically it.

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Yes.

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And then, you call this sort of more of your working hand, if you will.

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Yes. Traditional hook.

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And it opens up, but doesn't do much more than that.

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That's it.

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You know, a lot of things you take for granted in life.

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And to pick up something small as this or -- for instance, you know, I do have kids --

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to be able to hold my kids' hands again, you know, with that, is a lot harder because this forms to their hand.

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So, in my eyes, that's huge for me.

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So, it's definitely interesting how you can do the small things instead of asking somebody else to do it for me.