Entanglement and Teleportation

[Nienstien]

Ok, so I'm merely a high school student but I have a fair amount of physics and (non-mathematical) quantum physics down. My question has to do with entanglement and teleportation. I have a fairly low understanding of entanglement however I have heard news of teleporting being done (on a small scale of course). I would like to know how this works and/or why it doesn't.

Couple of the places I see this:
http://calitreview.com/51
http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/quantum-physics/10-ways-quantum-physics-will-change-world9.htm

 

[Matterwave]

I refer you to this xkcd comic:

http://xkcd.com/465/

But yea, quantum teleportation does not involve actually teleporting anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation