Sci-Fi World Exhibit #11279432: Transporter Technology

http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/06/item20020617070959_1.htm

"Scientists in Canberra have successfully teleported a laser beam for the first time in Australia.

Teleportation is usually found in science fiction programs like Star Trek, but a team of researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) has carried out a successful teleportation experiment in a gravitational wave lab.

Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location."

When they get this working with solid matter............