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After being connected to a thought-controlled hand, Pierpaolo Petruzziello had to work hard to actually use it.For nearly a month, 27-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello lived as the bionic man envisaged by many science fiction writers. With a bunch of electrodes sticking out of his arm, he could control a biomechanical hand connected to his nervous system by using thought, alone. As Pierpaolo conveyed in an interview in Rome with Discovery News, the process was not an easy one, but it was worth the work. "I have to be honest. If I could have watched in a movie all that I had...