Besides some "under the hood" performance improvements the iPhone4s has over the iPhone4, the major improvement was Siri, the artificial intelligence machine that provides a more personal touch to the user-iPhone interface.

It was only a matter of time before a competing program came out, and it is called Evi.

Hanson Robotics, the creation of David Hanson, has been creating life-like robots since 2003. The latest creation, Philip K. Dick Andriod, is Hansons most realistic android yet, and perhaps one of the leading androids ever invented.

But another bomb went off in mid-September, killing a soldier and critically injuring Trimble, who lost both legs and his left arm.

Trimble said he has been too focused on his recovery to reflect much on how his life has changed.

Hasbro, the toy company who struck a gold mine with the "Transformers" empire (think Optimus Prime, etc.) has sued tech manufacturer Asus over the name of Asus' new tablet: the Transformer Prime.

http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/12/23/asus-transformer-prime-sued-hasbro/

Ekso Bionics (Berkeley Bionics) has a really cool device named "Ekso" which allows wheelchair patients to stand. The Ekso is an exoskeleton that costs $150,000, which for those who can afford it, is a bargain to reclaim a sense of mobility.

Battery life is 4 hours.

The Ekso is an evolution of the previous Berkeley Bionics products: ExoClimber, HULC and eLEGS.

Small, floating robots, powered by a Samsung Nexus phone. That doesn't exactly sound like NASA, it sounds more like a crazy Google Labs experiement. But the SPHERES Satellite Robot is real, and it really works.

Aldebaran Robotics has come up with a new humanoid robot. It is based of its NAO robot.

The cute little NAO robot builds on a working base of over 2,000 Generation 1 NAO robots. The NAO Next Gen is capable of a higher level of interaction with the use, due to increased computing power, improved stability and higher accuracy.

I think the definition of Artificial Intelligence is skewed. What is artificial intelligence? I was always under the impression that it was a computer program that could "think" for itself and was self aware.

BionicMe brought you an article on heads up display glasses, and it was only a matter of time before researchers took that heads up display one step further: contact lenses.

Imagine see-through contact lenses that of course provide 20/20 vision, but that project a heads-up display of anything from TV, movies, the internet, Facebook, emails, text and more.