who knew they knew: gecko-tech takes military up walls

Slate's Daniel Engber worries about (ahem) overkill on viewing the military’s latest bizarre gizmos, now on display at the DARPATech Conference in Anaheim. Engber notes there is a plethora, if not a surfeit, of robotics technology now enabling the military to do their fighting remotely. And, the new kid on this block is ‘StickyBot’, a robotic lizard that appears to already incorporate the latest nano research on gecko feet.