'Teleporting' over the internet  Posted by: ErrOr404
'Teleporting' over the internet - 06/17/05 11:11 PM  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".  Cameras would capture the movement of an
object or person and then this data would be fed to the atoms,
which would then assemble themselves to make up an exact
likeness of the object.  They came up with the idea based on
"claytronics," the animation technique which involves slightly
moving a model per frame to animate it.  "We thought that a good
analogy for what we were going to do was claymation - something
like the Wallace and Gromit shows," Dr Mowry told BBC World
Service's Outlook programme.  "When you watch som