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2 January 2015 Last updated at 11:31 GMT
Lyndon Longhorne, from Crook, lost the limbs as well as tips of the fingers on his left hand.
The 19-year-old said since the state-of-the-art hand was fitted, life is "a lot different".
A teenager from County Durham who lost his legs and an arm to meningitis when he was nine months old has had a bionic arm fitted.