teleportation

China has a quantum teleporter and we don’t

A team of scientists in China have transmitted quantum information between protons 10 miles apart without the use of a traditional signal or network. No, we’re not “beaming down to the surface” yet. Quantum teleportation involves bonding two protons in so that when the quantum state of one proton is altered, the other gets altered…

io9 Marc Bernardin May 21

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Across 10 Miles

In our collective imagination, teleportation has always seemed like the logical step after flying cars. But scientists’ recent success in teleporting information between photons ten miles apart makes it seem like we might just leapfrog those flying jalopies altogether. Let’s get one important point out of the way up front: quantum teleportation is not exactly…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 20

Gernsback Imagines Life 50 Years Hence (1925)

This image was lost some time after publication. Hugo Gernsback wrote a syndicated piece in 1925 that imagined the world of 1975. It appeared in the February 8th edition of the San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) and has an interesting mix of hits and misses. Highlights from the article are excerpted below. You can…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 19

Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole

Fans of surreal mysteries like Lost and The Prisoner would do well to check out Sin Titulo, Cameron Stewart‘s creepy noir comic involving malevolent nursing home employees, teleportation, and people psychically connected through a vision of a dead tree. Along with Karl Kerschl, of the previously mentioned The Abominable Charles Christopher, Cameron Stewart is part…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 2

Major Milestone Reached in the Quest For Star Trek Style Teleportation

I don’t understand quantum mechanics. Physicists don’t even really understand it. But somehow, information was successfully teleported over a full meter, which means we’re that much closer to making Star Trek a dorktastic reality. A team at the University of Maryland was able to successfully teleport a quantum state (like spin or polarization) from one…

Physics & Chemistry Dan Nosowitz Jan 24

Question of the Day: Which Star Trek Technology Would You Like to See Most?

We have all seen the futuristic sci fi movies and TV shows with their fancy technology, and the question we all ask ourselves at one point or another is “when are we going to get some of that?” Unfortunately, the answer is “not very soon” when it comes to most of the choices listed below.…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Mar 4

Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron

With Jumper opening today and everyone abuzz about teleportation, it seemed like the perfect time to remind everyone of another movie about teleportation: Tron. The device that zaps Jeff Bridges into the video-game world is actually built to teleport matter from one place to another. Learn the secret history of Tron, after the jump. That…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 15

Which Will Suck Less: Jumper or Knight Rider?

This weekend pits the teleporting deadpannisms of Hayden Christensen in the movie Jumper vs. Val Kilmer’s monotone as KITT in Sunday’s Knight Rider TV movie. So which one will be less sucky? We’ve already weighed in with our Jumper review, and we’ve given you a look at some clips from Knight Rider. Will you be…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 15

No, Kids, That’s Not How Teleportation Really Works

I know how much all of you wanted to believe that the teleportation effects in Jumper were based on real science, but it turns out tragically not to be true. Popular Mechanics has roped an actual physicist, Dr. Max Tegmark of MIT, into explaining the difference between what Hayden Christensen and Jamie Bell do in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 14

Dematerialize Yourself

A current exhibition in London gives you the feeling of stepping into a teleportation beam. Artist and film-maker Anthony McCall fills a room with dry ice, then two projectors beam a Quicktime video of moving cones of light into the haze. Thanks to the artificial smoke, the cones appear solid and it looks as though…

io9 Charliejane Jan 8

China has a quantum teleporter and we don’t

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Across 10 Miles

Gernsback Imagines Life 50 Years Hence (1925)

Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole

Major Milestone Reached in the Quest For Star Trek Style Teleportation

Question of the Day: Which Star Trek Technology Would You Like to See Most?

Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron

Which Will Suck Less: Jumper or Knight Rider?

No, Kids, That’s Not How Teleportation Really Works

Dematerialize Yourself

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