Beam me up Scotty!

[Jan]

http://www.australiannews.net/story/769937

A team of scientists from Australia and Japan have found a way to successfully teleport light particles from one place to another, a step that may actually see a real life Captain Kirk being beamed up to Starship Enterprise.

The team, led by researchers at the University of Tokyo, say this is the first-ever teleportation or transfer of quantum information from one location to another using normal, "classical" communications.

They say it will make possible high-speed, high fidelity transmission of large volumes of information, such as quantum encryption keys, via communications networks.

so it is probably more for the 'evolving' of computers - but it could 'boldly go where no one has gone before' perhaps in the future