So what you're saying is that we can expect lightsabers really soon???

But I still don't know if the light in my fridge actually goes off once the door's closed. And is it the door's closing that makes the light go out or does the inevitability of the closing and the resulting futility of it all force the lamp to extinguish? Sorry. The article is actually fascinating. It's just difficult to assign importance to this tech yet.

Photons being curved around by a magnetic field? No wonder we can see so far into the universe. We're actually looking at ourselves at the light is curved around and comes back to us.

@StrangeHero: Actually, the light would be curved, so there would be lightscimitars instead.
lol

Ok. So... Bend the light at two places a meter apart and make a "Light Chainsaw".

Clay, just take out all of the beer and shelves, climb inside and find out when you close the door, don't stay inside too long ;)Bill

can someone please explain the article to me? it really confused me..
i think what the article was trying to say was that we wont need satelites anymore because we can send the information through the light (like a fiber optic but with out the fiber) and it will go around the earth to something on the other side of the world with out having to bounce off satelites
is this what it means? because i have no clue lol

Another step towards Bob Shaw's "Slow Glass"? Look up his 1966 short story, "Light of Other Days".

Lets clarify something here.
The first picture shows electrons flowing in a curve path through a magnetic field. The second picture which is an illustration, is of a similar effect for photons inside a solid crystalline material, but not in free air or vacuum like the first picture shows.
The initial picture gives you the wrong impression.

Many applications involving light involve signal loss - look at fiber optics that need to use a signal booster every so kilometres distance. One of the drawbacks of such a technology could be removed by removing the need for signal boosters.