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we don't often think about how the sense of touch makes our lives possible. we grip a paper coffee cup with

perfect force to hold it but not crush it. our feet always find the floor. but for people with artificial limbs, or those with spinal injuries, the loss of touch can put the world beyond their grasp. 17 years ago, the defense department launched a $100 million project to revolutionize prosthetic limbs. the robotics you're about to see is amazing. but even more remarkable is how the feeling of feeling is returning to people like brandon prestwood. >> for me, it was it's a battle if i wanted to live or die. >> you weren't sure you wanted to live? >> no. i didn't know if i wanted to or not. >> brandon prestwood's battle began with the loss of his left hand.

in 2012, he was on a maintenance crew reassembling an industrial conveyor belt when someone turned it on. >> my arm was dragged in pretty much up to the shoulder. it crushed my bones in my arm and fed my arm through a gap of about one inch. >> how did they save your life? >> the other maintenance guys jumped in. they started basically taking the machine back apart. once we got it back apart, i could look in and see what was there. and one of the gentlemen was a vietnam veteran. >> and the vietnam veteran knew what to do. >> yeah. >> the vietnam veteran knew tourniquets. but prestwood lost his hand and couldn't return to his job. >> that sounds good. >> after four years with a hook, he told his wife, amy, he wanted to volunteer for experimental

research involving surgery at the v.a. >> i was not 100% on board to start with. but i knew he had his mind set that he was -- he had to do this. and i couldn't hold him back. >> six years later, thanks to defense department and v.a. projects, prestwood controls this hand with nothing but his thoughts. >> everything still feel good? >> probably, when i get her turned around here. >> electrodes, implanted in muscles in his arm, pick up his brain's electrical signals for movement. a computer translates those signals to the hand. >> how about the middle finger now? sensors in the plastic fingers are connected to nerves in his arm to return a basic sense of touch, which he can demonstrate with his eyes closed. >> pinky, index. >> that's not bad. >> middle.

>> it still requires a little bit but it's not bad. >> biomedical engineer dustin tyler leads this research at case western reserve university and the cleveland v.a. >> touch is about connection. it's connection to the world, connections to others, and it's connection to yourself. i mean, we never experienced not having touch. it's the largest sensory organ on our body. >> tyler first attempted an artificial connection in 2012. he switched it on in a volunteer and wondered what would happen. >> so i was concerned, would it be his whole hand? would it be painful? would it not feel anything? we had no idea. so, one of those big moments in my career was he came in, we first turned on the stimulus, and he kinda stopped for a second, and he goes, "that's my thumb, that's the tip of my thumb." >> this happened right away? >> first time. >> it didn't require any training of the brain. >> no. that was the beauty of it, "my

thumb." >> brandon prestwood remembers the instant it happened to him. >> "that's my fingers." i am feeling my fingers that i don't have anymore. i'm feeling them. >> a definite feeling, he told us, but different. >> it doesn't feel exactly like my right hand. it's a tingling sensation. it's not painful. it's kind of like, if your hand's been asleep, right at the end, right before it wakes up, that very, for me, it's pleasant, it's a pleasant tingling. >> let's see if you can do it on a cherry here. >> a tingling that's light with a light touch but grows stronger the harder he presses. eyes closed, he can pinch a cherry firmly enough to pull it from its stem but not crush it. >> you can feel this, it's light. >> i had to use my lightest touch with an empty egg shell. >> so if i hold this right here -- >> i can feel that.

i can feel it here and here. >> it's a feeling more than a decade in the making. >> at the beginning of this research, how did you even imagine that this would be possible? >> i didn't imagine. i imagined it was not going to be possible. >> sliman bensmaia, at the university of chicago, is among the world's leading experts on the neuroscience of touch. in 2008, he joined the defense department's project to revolutionize prosthetics, but he didn't think the pentagon knew what it was up against. >> there are 100 billion neurons in the brain interconnected with 100 trillion synapses. i mean, the human brain, it's like the most complex system in the known universe. >> too complex, he believed, to target electrical stimulation to exactly the right neurons. >> and when we electrically stimulate, we activate hundreds, thousands of them at the same time, in ways that would never happen naturally.

it just seemed like that very impoverished interface with this nervous system would never do any -- be able to do anything useful. and it turns out i was wrong. >> he was proved wrong by his own research... >> how ya doin', scott? nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, scott. >> ...with volunteers including scott imbrie. >> and you can feel that? >> i feel it on my fingertips. >> ...whose movement and sense of touch are limited by a spinal injury from a car accident. computer ports in imbrie's skull are wired to the motor and sensory parts of his brain. electrodes pick up the brain's electrical signals that were intended for the muscles. a computer translates those signals to the robot arm. we first saw this brain/machine interface ten years ago at the university of pittsburgh. but, back then, there was no sensation.

>> index finger -- >> in collaboration with pitt, neuroscientist sliman bensmaia showed that signals for touch could be returned to the brain. >> how can you possibly know what part of the brain is the tip of the index finger? >> we took scott and we put him in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. and then we had him imagine moving his thumb, imagine moving his index, imagine moving his digits as we monitored his brain activity. and lo and behold, the sensory and motor parts of the brain that are involved in the hand lit up. >> middle...ring...index... >> there are challenges. eventually the brain builds scar tissue at the implants limiting. buone ent's imts have a ed snting.

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unfortunately, that waalth came back after my accident. >> his accident was on a vacation celebrating his college graduation. diving into a submerged sandbar left him quadriplegic. now, motor and sensory impulses flow through the ports in beggin's skull and a computer, bypassing his damaged spine. >> relax...close. >> the research is led by bolu ajiboye, a biomedical engineer at case western reserve university. >> our goal is to restore complete functionality of the upper arm including dexterous hand function and the ability to reach out so that austin and others who've suffered, you know, severe spinal cord injury can regain some level of functional independence. >> the cradle under his arm only supports the weight -- all of the motion is his own.

open hand, relax hand. close hand, relax hand. open hand, relax hand. >> and the computer needs frequent adjustment. >> how'd that feel? >> good. but his parents shelly and brad showed us where this could lead. >> carrot? or would you like to have a nice granola bar? >> i'll take the granola bar. >> yeah, i figured. >> beggin retained limited feeling after his injury which makes him ideal for evaluating the artificial sense of touch. his motor skills continue to grow. >> so if i can extend first. let me open my hand for ya and squeeze around it. you'll feel me really start to dig in right there. >> you got a grip. >> yeah. [ laughter ] it really is. and let go and i'll bring the arm back up. >> congratulations. >> yeah. thank you.

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the online auction site ebay launched the e-commerce revolution when it was founded more than 20 years ago. over the decades, it's drawn in 134 million users from mom-and-pop collectors on the hunt for bargains to small business owners. in 2022, users sold almost $74 billion worth of goods through ebay. but last month, buried in an otherwise dull annual financial disclosure - a note on page 105 hinted at a scandal inside the silicon valley giant. it refers to an inquiry from the u.s. attorney about the stalking and harassment of the editor and publisher of an online newsletter at the hands of ebay employees.

tonight, we will introduce you to the couple that was the target of that stalking. they loved ebay so much, they started a publication to help people who sell stuff on the auction site, and then found themselves the focus of a terror campaign. we met ina and david steiner in natick, massachusetts. a quaint boston suburb where the couple had enjoyed a quiet life until the summer of 2019. >> you called it psychological warfare. >> it -- it -- it felt like corporate terrorism because we were terrorized. and it was very calculated. it was very vicious. >> one of the things that we also learned was what sadistic pleasure these people took in terrorizing us. >> the steiners have been married for more than 30 years and worked together, from their home for more than 20. they publish a news website called e-commercebytes. david handles the business side of things, and ina does the reporting. >> what do you cover? who's the audience?

>> we cover industry news. so what i do is i -- i follow what's happening and how it impacts sellers. >> people would write to us. and they would say, "hey, i'm having a problem with amazon," or "i'm having a problem with ebay." >> and we said, "well, let's put up a section where we can just be a conduit." that's all we ever wanted to be, a conduit for sellers to tell their problems, tell their issues - share information. >> and give them a voice. >> and give them a voice. >> most of their 600,000 readers are sellers on ebay, amazon, and etsy. but the steiners say e-commerce executives also read ina's articles closely. >> industry observers would contact us with questions, as there were certain things going on. and wall street was very interested, because these were public companies. and they needed to know. >> tell me what happened when you opened your email on the morning of august 8th. >> well, we were getting bombarded with -- with sign-ups to crazy newsletters.

>> newsletters the steiners never signed up for...sin city fetish night, the satanic temple, the communist party, and dozens of others. >> then somebody started harassing us on twitter, through direct messages. >> what were you seeing on twitter? >> threats. >> it -- it was basically, "shut up, or else." and it was -- it was as blatant as that. >> but much more threatening than that and so vulgar we can't show you many of the messages. three days later, the steiners got a strange call. >> somebody left a voicemail for us saying they couldn't fulfill the order for a wet specimen. and david was the one who called. and he said, "what is a wet specimen?" and -- and it was a pig fetus. that's when i really -- my heart sank, because i thought, who might be angry at something i wrote? and i couldn't figure it out. i mean, we were -- we were desperately trying to think, who could it be? >> is that when you called the police?

>> every step along the way. >> but that was the first time. >> we -- we -- we would report it. and when the police drove up to the front door, we had to put on, you know, a rational face. we couldn't show how terrified we were. >> after the police officer took the report, he stepped outside and said, "there's a package here." so, he waited. and when i opened up the package, it looked like -- it looked like flesh and hair. and i kind of yelled, or shrieked. >> it was a pig mask from the horror movie "saw." the plot involves a psychopath who tortures his victims, the last thing they see is the mask. >> i imagine as this is happening, you're not only thinking, who is this person, but what are they going to do next? >> oh, that was the -- that was the question. what were they going to do next? >> over the next week someone sent boxes of live cockroaches and spiders to the steiners. pornography was sent to their neighbors but addressed to david. on social media, the steiners home was listed as the site of

yard sales and sex parties. and then this book about surviving the loss of a spouse addressed to david, arrived at the steiners' doorstep. >> it was a death threat. and to be followed up a few short days later with a funeral wreath, an expensive funeral wreath, it -- it only confirmed that these people were going to hurt or kill ina. >> you were afraid for her life. >> i -- i was terrified i was going to lose her. >> police, at first, thought it might be a small town prank. david installed more security cameras at their home. but for three weeks the threats and packages kept coming. >> as this is going on, what's it like to be inside your house? >> when it would get dark out at night, that's when i would really be terrified. >> you guys started sleeping in separate rooms at one point? >> what we -- what we wanted to do was to make sure that if someone did break in, that at

least one of us could either call the police or escape. >> the steiners were afraid inside their house and afraid to leave it after david noticed a van and later a car following him. he was terrified but managed to get a photo of the license plate. that broke open the case. >> i'm a guy who likes to dig up things. i sometimes don't get the end result. and that's why i rely on smart guys like this. >> natick detective john haswell was working the case with sergeant jason sutherland. he ran the license plate of the car that had been following david. >> and it came back to a rental agency. and i contacted the rental agency, and got the name of the renter. veronica zea. i didn't know anything about the steiners at this point, other than what was going on with them. so i -- this was the first time that i called them. >> and i said, "are you familiar with the name?" they weren't. and while i was saying that, i think -- mrs. steiner did the -- her own little search and said, "oh, my god, she works for ebay." >> -- ion'tw,n't describe howbd

we were. ebay? i mean, what was an ebay employee doing in a rental van, following david? did she -- >> it blew our minds. >> -- send all these things? was it ebay that did this to us? i mean, it was inconceivable. >> sergeant sutherland tracked veronica zea's rental car to the boston ritz-carlton and called her from the lobby. >> i fully expected her to come down and say -- hand me a business card and say, "i'm from ebay and we're doing an investigation and, yeah, i drove by the house." we called up to the room, and she said she'd be down after she had a conference call. she never showed up. >> zea left town without talking to police. but detective haswell had been chasing down another lead. he learned the funeral wreath sent to the steiners was bought with a gift card from a grocery store in silicon valley not far from the ebay headquarters. >> yeah. they were less than eight miles away. and he was able to get

photographs of them purchasing the gift cards, and it was veronica zea again. >> the fbi took over. ten months later, the u.s. attorney in massachusetts andrew lelling announced the indictments of six employees and contractors from ebay. >> the complaint alleges that the victims were targeted because ebay executives were unhappy with the coverage of ebay on the couples website. >> it didn't take us an hour to realize the ramifications of a public company trying to destroy a journalist, they were attacking the first amendment, freedom of the press. they wanted to destroy ina and our publication. >> former federal prosecutor andrew lelling says the plan to target the steiners was hatched at ebay. >> what was unique about this case is that you had relatively senior management at a fortune

500 company who thought it was a good idea to launch what can only be described as a campaign of terror targeting a middle-aged couple in natick. >> well, the why is actually harder than it seems. >> investigators learned in april of 2019, ebay's then ceo dvin wenig shared a link to this post ina had written about his annual pay. ebay's chief communications officer, steve wymer, wrote back, "we are going to crush this lady" about a month later wenig, the ceo of ebay texted "take her down." prosecutors say steve wymer later texted ebay security director jim baugh "i want to see ashes. as long as it takes. whatever it takes." just a few days later, investigators say baugh set up a meeting with his security staff at ebay's california headquarters, posted a map of natick on the wall, and then dispatched a team to boston. >> seven people who worked for ebay's safety and security unit,

including two former cops, and a former nanny all plead guilty to stalking or cyberstalking charges. >> senior security director jim baugh was sentenced to five years in prison. veronica zea was sentenced to a year of home confinement and probation. but to date ebay has not been charged with any crimes. the company said in a statement to "60 minutes" the conduct of the former employees was wrong and it has cooperated fully with the government investigation. >> the plan was hatched in ebay's headquarters, in a conference room. it was paid for, ultimately, by ebay. don't they bear any responsibility for this? >> they may. but cases are common where an employee inside a company uses company resources to do wrong. in every one of those cases it's not necessarily true that the company itself is responsible. >> and lelling says there was not enough evidence to file criminal charges against ebay's top executives devin wenig or steve wymer.

>> but when he says or texts, "i wanna see ashes, whatever it takes"... >> people say things like that all the time. especially senior people in companies. it's not the same as i am knowingly joining a criminal conspiracy to cyberstalk a couple in natick. people use loose talk like that all the time. >> let me ask you something. if you have a dog that is trained to attack and then you give them the command, "take her down," aren't you as responsible for the damage that happens? >> it's obvious that it started from the top. >> jillise mcdonough and rosemary scapicchio are representing the steiners in a civil case against ebay, and its former executives. >> if you're in the c-suite, it's your job to know what your employees are doing. how did you sit back and say you didn't know, especially when

good things were happening and -- and, you know, the share prices were increasing? they were all, you know, pattin' themselves on the back. they -- "we did that, we did that, we had" -- but then when something like this happens, they turn around and say, we had no idea, we had no idea what was happening. >> we've seen these text messages from wenig and from wymer. i was under the impression they turned over all their text messages. that didn't happen? >> no. wymer deleted his text messages. there was a notice that went out to everyone to say, there's this criminal investigation, preserve the evidence. wymer immediately deletes everything. that's obstruction of justice. if i did that, i'd be sitting in a jail cell somewhere right now. >> the current u.s. attorney has said the investigation into ebay is ongoing. >> steve wymer was fired for cause by ebay and now runs the boys and girls clubs of silicon valley. he has said his texts were mischaracterized and that he learned of the employees' conduct only after the fact. the former ceo devin wenig said in a statement to "60 minutes" that he was appalled at what happened and had he been aware of it at the time he would have

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each other is just really unfortunate and sad. and we got to -- it's always been a problem, but it seem like it's gotten worse in the last few years - black on black crime and the way we've been killing each other. >> barkley may be at his most visible in the studio in atlanta. >> but for a fuller sense of the man, head two hours west to his hometown of leeds, alabama. >> i'm telling y'all, i did not name the street after myself. >> you didn't lobby for charles barkley avenue? >> i did not lobby for charles barkley avenue. >> we interviewed barkley in the home he still keeps in town. it's a few hundred yards from where he grew up. >> you were angry that your dad left the family when you were 1 years old. >> i was very angry. and i was even angrier because he kept saying he was going to send us money, and he didn't do it. because, like, you know, my mom and grandma were working their behinds off. and the thing that was really bad about it, i was standing by

the mailbox, like, once every three or four months. >> waiting for the checks. >> yes, but they never came. >> his indomitable grandma, johnnie mae, who helped raise him, still inspires stories when charles and his buddies get together in leeds. >> shoot, granny was the real deal. [ laughter ] >> actually, charles is the spittin' image of granny, really. >> yeah, me got that mouth, and she had one too. >> so, we were really poor. we didn't know at the time. so to make ends meet, she sold alcohol. >> where? >> in, in, in the house. >> called the shot house. >> out of your house? >> yeah. so people would come over friday and saturday and play cards. everybody starts drinking. once somebody lose their money, there's going to be a fight. so my grandmother, this little old lady, she's walking around with a six-shooter. and she's keeping the peace. i didn't even know any better, jon. i thought this was normal stuff. >> whoa. >> yeah.

[ laughter ] >> barkley also took us to his old junior high gym. it stands, barely, as a symbol of how far he's come. >> 14, 15-year-old charles barkley walking in here. who's that kid? >> he's a 5'9", 5'10" big-boned, not fat, big-boned, chubby, whatever word you wanna use. i'm a 5'10" backup point guard. >> you remember specific plays and shots from playing here? tie game. we got you on the wing. well, first of all, if it was tie game, i'm not going to be in the game. let's get that out the way. >> a six-inch growth spurt helped turn barkley into a high school basketball star. but his formative teenage experience came at the school football stadium. >> wow. >> this is where he stood alone, at a distance, watching his classmates graduate. >> i flunked spanish, so i didn't graduate. i was h devaated and i drove around the backside

here, and i stood here for two hours and watched the graduation. and i cried the whole time. even now, it's kinda hittin' me in a -- in the heart a little bit. man, what a traumatic night that was. >> you remember the name of the teacher? >> ms. gomez. i'll never forget that. and ms. gomez, when i go back and think, was one of the sweetest, kindest people i'd ever met in my life. but in that moment, i was so mad because, you know, i wanted to throw my hat in the air too. >> he graduated, thanks to summer school. at auburn, he was a star, yes, for his skills, but also for his heroic appetite. he embraced his nickname: the round mound of rebound. >> charles barkley! wow! >> drafted in 1984, he became a charismatic nba star for the philadelphia 76ers. >> he's the shortest man ever to lead the nba in rebounding,

proof that - for all barkley's yuks - he played with fury. >> i was playing to stick it to my dad, ms. gomez, and some of the kids who had made fun of me, instead of just wanting to be great at basketball. >> what's firing up this furnace is the anger you have for your spanish teacher that flunked you. >> yes. >> and your dad. >> yes, 100%. >> what caused you to flush out this anger and get motivated for a different reason? >> the spittin' incident in new jersey. >> in 1991, he spat at a heckler and inadvertently hit a young girl. he calls it the low point of his career. >> i got suspended, rightfully so. i was sitting in my hotel room, and i was, like, "you are the biggest loser in the world." i remember saying, "this is it tonight." >> meaning what? >> i am only going to play basketball because i'm great at it, and i love to play.

i'm getting all the dirt off my shoulders. ms. gomez, bye! dad, bye! that was really the turning point for me. >> by sir charles! >> barkley was the nba's mvp in 1993 for the phoenix suns, and then, months after retiring in 2000, he embarked on a broadcasting career. >> number one, there's no dominant team. >> full disclosure, you may have just seen him on this network working march madness. >> what do you make of the college game today? >> it's a travesty and a disgrace. i'm so mad now how we can mess up something that's so beautiful. >> how'd we mess it up? >> we can't pay all these players. >> translation: barkley hates the new, wild west of college sports where players go to the schools that can bid the highest. >> in the next three to five years, we're going to have 25

schools that's going to dominate the sports because they can afford players, and these schools who can't afford or won't pay players are going to be irrelevant. >> almost a quarter century since barkley last played. >> and now, for my opinion... >> his opinions, free of varnish, still matter. >> is kevin durant a great, great player? >> if you ain't driving the bus, don't walk around talking about you a champion. >> his takes don't always go ovr well. kevin durant, a perennial all-star, once said of barkley, "i don't know why they still ask for this idiot's opinion." >> kevin durant. >> he's very sensitive. great player. he's part of that generation who think he can't be criticized. he's never looked in the mirror and said, "man, was that a fair criticism?" >> we're in agreement today's players are a little more sensitive to criticism than your generation. >> that would be an understatement. >> today's players take offense, but so have players from your generation. it's been, been a while since you and michael jordan spoke.

>> michael disagreed with something i said, and he broke off the friendship. >> born three days apart, barkley and jordan were once the best of friends, but as jordan struggled as owner of the charlotte hornets, barkley minced no words. >> and what i said. i think that he don't have enough people around him that are going to tell him "no." and he got really offended, and we haven't spoken. but, jon, i really -- i'm going to do my job. because i have zero credibility if i criticize other people in the same boat and not criticize my best friend. >> even if you have nothing to apologize for, you think of just picking up the phone and trying to repair this thing with michael? >> i got an ego, too, jon. [ laughter ] you can't be great at something, like that doesn't give you the right to be a jerk. >> you think you'll resolve this eventually? >> he got my number. >> if you really want to get barkley going on disappointment,

ask him about his daughter christiana's basketball skills. >> your daughter's not a basketball player. >> that was -- that was brutal. she was six feet tall from birth. [ laughter ] i'm going to have the best female basketball player in the world. i can't wait till she's old enough. i'm going to teach her everything. and then we start playing, and i'm sitting in the stands and i'm saying to myself, oh, man, she is not aggressive at all. so i ask her one day, i says, you don't like basketball, do you? she says, oh, dad, i hate basketball. and i said, oh, okay. and it took me a little while to get over that, because like i said... >> you're being serious now? >> yeah. but she's a great person and a straight-a student. so i have to brag about that. >> i guarantee that makes you feel every bit as good as her hitting a game-winning jumper.

>> not quite. but it's close enough. >> hi, dad! >> christina, now 33, recently had a son, henry. the new grandpa says he's never felt joy like this. when we arrived, he broke out this video. >> it is by far and away the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in my life. >> lives up to the hype? >> it lives up to the hype. i want to spend time with him, because i'm not morbid, i'm not upset, i'm on the back nine. i hope i'm on hole 10 or 11, but you never know. i could be on 17 and 18. so i want to spend as much time with him as possible. and then when he gets older, i want him to google me. >> google me, kid. >> yeah, hey, yeah. >> do you know who i am? >> i hope he does some research on me. i'll be long gone, but i would like him to know that i accomplished some things in my

life. i got to live my dream. >> charles barkley on gratitude. >> if you think i'm better or i work harder, you're just stupid. >> at 60minutesovertime.com.

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