In spite of its name, quantum teleportation has nothing to do with the type of teleportation depicted in the television show Star Trek and other science fiction stories.
Long and short, quantum teleportation and "real" teleportation have nothing in common but the name.
The Apple rumor mill promised an iPhone 5 with killer specs, a huge screen and nothing less than a built-in teleportation device.
(Proposed subtitle: "Forget Everything That Happened in Season 3A!") The housecleaning crowds out the fun in this episode -- there's nothing to match, say, Hiro's 1-2-3 tElleortation of Elle, Sylar and Claire, a high point of last fall's muddled half-season -- but it gives hope for the future.
The most important difference between this scheme and the fictional teleportation of Star Trek and other science fiction stories is that nothing material moves from one place to another.
Teleportation has been perfected, and the people of Boston and Washington, D.C. could think of nothing better to do with it than to whimsically link up identically-colored subway lines in endless loops.
Teleportation is technically demanding, especially when the object being teleported is a whole human.
"I quite like quotes from random people that add nothing substantive," said Betty Adams, a 32-year-old from Adelphi, Ohio, who works at a factory making teleportation devices.
It's visual teleportation.
