The above URL is for the article, but this links to a fascinating video:
<a href="http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13004V1.mov" rel="nofollow">http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13004V1.mo...</a><p>I guess it won't be long until we'll be chatting to Lt. Commander Data!