BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Teleporting' over the internet

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Teleporting' over the internet: "Teleporting' over the internet
Animator Nick Park with claymation model of Wallace, from Wallace And Gromit
Dr Mowry was inspired by Aardman Animation's Wallace And Gromit
Computer scientists in the US are developing a system which would allow people to 'teleport' a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the internet.

Professors Todd Mowry and Seth Goldstein of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania think that, within a human generation, we might be able to replicate three-dimensional objects out of a mass of material made up of small synthetic 'atoms'."