An interesting interview from <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-teleporting-is-nothing-like-star-trek" target="_blank">Scientific American</a> which lays out the current state of play on teleportation. It's a little more tangled than we'd like to hope:

<strong>'What's the biggest misconception about teleportation?</strong>
Jeff Kimble: That the object itself is being sent. We're not sending around material stuff. If I wanted to send you a Boeing 757, I could send you all the parts, or I could send you a blueprint showing all the parts, and it's much easier to send a blueprint. Teleportation is a protocol about how to send a quantum state—a wave function—from one place to another.'

<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-teleporting-is-nothing-like-star-trek" target="_blank">Scientific American</a> via <a href="http://dailygrail.com" target="_blank">The Daily Grail </a>