so you can lift something heavy. >> kamen: right.d heavy, one or the other might just deflate. >> ready to put it on? >> downs: okay. >> pelley: kamen asked fred downs, the v.a. official in charge of prosthetics, to take off the hook he'd been wearing for 40 years and give the new arm a try. >> downs: i'm moving this around to see how stable my stump is inside here. >> pelley: the arm is controlled by flexing the shoulder, and pressing buttons built into his shoes, almost as if he's typing with his toes. >> downs: okay. ball of the foot. outside of the foot. and then, toes. >> pelley: you were skeptical? >> downs: very, very skeptical, because i've seen lots of inventions come along in my years of being in charge of prosthetics, and so... some great stuff. but in the long run, it doesn't really work because your body only has so much tolerance for gadgetry. >> pelley: after practicing for ten hours, downs showed us what he could do. >> downs: now, i use my toes to grasp this. the feeling is hard to describe. for the first time in 40

kamen is when to close us out with some remarks. >> thank you to everyone -- cameron is going to closed that these are young people. none of them are even close to the age of 30 who are active in the party and are holding leadership capacities nationwide. thank you so much to them. thank you also to the university -- the howard university democrats who came out tonight. the college republicans are in the lobby. importantly, for those of you who are registered republicans who are not active in our chapter, the republican national committee is here. the coordinator is outside in the lobby. she has a table set up and has information on how you can become an intern with the national republican committee. they are accepting interns for the fall semester, this current semester, and the spring semester of 2010. one stipulation is that you have to be a registered republican appeare. again, they do so much for coming out. thank you so much to the howard university student body. of course, we had some dissenting voices that are not part of our student body. but we think the haters as well. thank