Teleporting...sort of

Ever since I first watched Star Trek I've been intrigued by the transporter technology they used. This is a true statement for most sci-fi geeks, but some of those geeks are actually working on it. The difference is that this teleporting wouldn't actually transmit a person from one place to the other, instead it would transmit the likeness of the person to the other place and requires a computer network. It's an interesting idea and it'll be interesting to see if they can actually get it to work.