When can we get a Terminator?

Daniel Engber at Slate has an interesting piece on the latest weird and wonderful gadgets being developed by the US's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. These are the people who brought you everything from the internet to the Stealth Bomber, and their latest inventions include a wall-climbing lizard-bot, insect cyborgs and a contraption that enables scuba divers to swim like dolphins, as well as projects with more practical applications, including instant audio translation software.