Flesh-eating bacteria victim gets new bionic hands

A woman who lost her hands, one leg and her other foot to a flesh-eating bacteria after an accident last year has been fitted with bionic hands.

Aimee Copeland had developed the infection, called necrotizing fasciitis, following an accident on May 1, 2012.

She got a cut in a zip-lining accident and fell into a Georgia river after which the flesh-eating Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria entered her wound.

A new video released on Friday and provided to WXIA in Atlanta, shows the 24-year-old learning how to use Touch Bionics' "i-limb ultra revolution" prosthetic hands, CBS News reported.

In the video, Copeland appears excited as she performs activities like using a spray bottle of cleaning fluid, wiping tables, hang clothes, eating candy and flat-ironing her hair.

"It feels amazing because...with the other arms I had, they really didn't feel like an extension of my body," she said.

She said that it seems like that could be her actual hand.

Karen Hakenson, a spokesperson for Touch Bionics, told the publication that Copeland arrived at the company's facility in Hilliard, Ohio on Monday to get fitted for the hands.

Hakenson said that the fitting process takes about a week to custom design to her anatomy.

According to the company's website, the hands contain a powered rotating thumb and can have 24 different grips patterns configured through an iPhone app.

Each finger is supposed to bend at natural joints so it can accurately fit around an object the wearer wants to grasp.

Copeland told WXIA, which reports that the hands cost 100,000 dollars each, that the first thing she wants to do with her new hands is cook.