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Accident and lost all feeling from his elbow down. thanks to a microchip he can move his hand for the first time in years and becoming the first patient to do so. and there is an engineer that interpret brain signals. and doctor, a li resid, is a nuro surgeon who performed the brain surgery. we'll try to work through this. thank you for taking time to join us. we were blown away by the video and seeing it take place for the first time for this young man. can you explain how it works? >> okay, we have a tiny chip in the motor area of the brain and picking up signals and we call it decoding and ...

His brain activity and like the doctor said, we have to actually adapt in realtime so our software and methods that analyze data have to adapt and get better and better. at the same time ian is getting better and better. usually after five or ten minutes, his performance is just unbelievable. >> constantly improving over time. >> take us out whether a couple months or a couple years. where do you want to see the technology go? how would it change the use of prosthetics in the future? where do you see this becoming available to consumers and something that they're able to use that could really ...

He's paralyzed. for people with not as extensive of an injury that have lost use of their hand, where do you see this technology going? who do you see benefiting the most from it? >> right. so one of the things we've been looking at is stroke and stroke rehabilitati rehabilitation. as you probably know, there are million of folks affected by stroke in the u.s. alone and our thoughts and collaboration is to actually adapt this technology to help folks speed up that recovery and regain some of the control that they've lost and some of the weakness on one side of the body that's affected by strok...

What ian is thinking about and going around the spinal cord injure and translating it language that the muscles can understand. he can achieve it. >> and how quickly does it happen? from the point that ian is thinking about it the movement how quickly does it take place? >> we developed our medical for a number of years. and have it down to a stepth 10 a second. >> wow. >> ian is making incredible progress and we are hoping to reach that kind of goal. >> doctor, i know that surgery is an important part of the process as chad mentioned. what did you have to do to make it possible?