This wasn't done for the first time, I think it was done last year. Maybe someone who knows more about this can confirm it, but isn't this just spintronics?
July 24 in Photonics Spectra magazine, under presstime bulletin: "Metallic slits modify laser pulses" but dy Abdulhakem Elezzabi and Anthony Dechant at UofA. You can find the full paper at the American Institute of Physics Volume 84 Number 23: Femtosecond optical pulse propagation in subwavelength metallic slits, April 2004.
This stuff I believe led to the idea of a negative refractive index, and an application the US military did that had an article referced on this board 3 months ago, the invisible blanket. The idea was that you could cover something and make it invisible by bending light around the blanket - the only problem was, since everyone else can't see you, you can't see them either.
As for light teleportation... I think MIT did that in 2002, search quantum teleportation. It was a C-60, over a long distance.
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