Why can't quantum teleportation be used to transport information? Kaku Michio says in an interview that we've teleported photons, cesium atoms and beryllium atoms. Having watched a lot of Kaku as well as way too many astrophysics documentaries in general, I know he's exaggerating. From what I understand, some state of those particles were teleported.
Here's my question: what state exactly is being teleported, and why can't it be used to transfer classical information? How can we know experimentally that a teleportation occured, if the transported information can't be read classically?
Most of the news articles for the general public just throw around the word "state" without explaining the idea (or flat out tell us like Kaku that atoms were teleported), and Wikipedia uses math and terminology that's way over my head.
Is there a layman's explanation by any chance?
 A: Of course you can "teleport" information. The problem is that to make this you still need classical channel which is limited by the speed of light. If you have no classical channel, teleportation process itself can not help to give any new information at recepient side due to its quantum nature. If you have no information of what happens on the other end of teleportation process from the other sources, results are just random for you. 
It is complicated, and I see no way to explain it without quantum mechanics. But the whole  idea has a bit different formulation than stated in your question. 
Probably, you should read something about Quantum key distribution. It is more technical area and may be formulated in more technical terms. 
A: According to the University of Delft in the Netherlands it is possible.
See recent publication in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12016.html`
And on the university site (in dutch):
http://www.tudelft.nl/nl/actueel/laatste-nieuws/artikel/detail/tu-delft-legt-fundament-voor-quantum-internet/
The statement ends with:

Ten tweede biedt teleportatie de mogelijkheid om informatie volledig veilig te versturen. Bij teleportatie reist de informatie niet door de tussenliggende ruimte en kan daarom niet worden afgeluisterd.

Which can be translated as: "Secondly teleportation offers the possibility to transmit information in a completely safe way. With teleportation the information does not travel through the space in between thus precluding eaves dropping."
