technology correspondent lori siegel introduces us to ian and show us the amazing moment when a chip in his brain helped him beat the odds. >> reporter: a paralyzed patient moves his fingers for the first time in years, using his mind. >> okay, ian, so you're going to think about opening your hand and i'll hand you the spoon, and then the software will help you go through the rest of the sequence of rotating and letting go of the spoon, okay? >> awesome. >> an ocean dive in 2010 left ian burkhart paralyzed. >> when i dove in and it, i didn't think anything of it. but i had this instant numbness feeling. and i knew something was wrong, because when i tried to move, i couldn't. >> and later you went to the doctor and what did they tell you? >> they told me that i had severed my spinal cord at a c-5, c-6 level. i would most likely never walk again. the chance of using my hand and fingers again were very slim. >> reporter: in the three years since the accident, ian had to re-learn how to drive, text, even watch his friends on the la crosse field. all with limited wrist movement. but the