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Life imitates Claymation in a BBC News article 'Teleporting' over the internet. It's actually not teleportation, that is being discussed, but instead a way to "reproduce" people or objects in another part of the world via the Internet. Professors at Carnegie Mellon university are working on a idea that is based on claymation inspired by the Wallace and Gromit show. There would be different perspective cameras in at least one location which would record all movements of the individual, pet or object that would then be beamed across the Internet where a material "made up of small synthetic 'atoms'" would reproduce the object and reflect it's movements. Fans of science fiction have long been interested in the idea of teleportation - where an object, or even a human being, is transported from one location to another instantaneously.
Professor Goldstein has envisioned that, eventually, the objects will be built with "nano-dust" - tiny objects that can be programmed to bind to each other and move - but currently they are trying to build at a much larger scale, working with objects the size of table-tennis balls.
Their original plan was for the application to work in face-to-face interaction.
Interesting idea... I can see the camera component working in the next year or two. But the atom material? That's quite a hurdle to overcome. But it would sure make for some hot video games. What do you think about this idea?
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