Lithuanian gets life-changing bionic arm

This picture taken on November 27, 2014 shows Lithuanian man Martynas Girulis using his new bionic prosthetic arm and hand to type using a keyboard at his home in Pagegiai, Lithuania. "It is the first patient with a congenital malformation to benefit from bionic reconstruction. This has not been done before anywhere in the world," according to Dr Oskar Aszmann who operated on the 21-year-old man in Vienna November 4, 2014. AFP PHOTO

MOCISKAI, Lithuania, Feb 18, 2015 (AFP) - Martynas Girulis cannot stop moving. He forks a few potatoes onto his plate, pours himself a glass of water, drinks it through a straw, then gets right back up.

This is new. The 21-year-old Lithuanian was born with a neuromuscular disease that left him unable to use his arms. But just last year he got a bionic arm, which he controls with his brain, after undergoing surgery his Austrian doctor calls the first of its kind.