PlayStation 3 Update At Engadget
The PlayStation 3 console may not be available just yet but from the "news" surrounding this gadget it would seem there is going to be the possibility of players volunteering their idle machines to a very worthwhile project. 'Stanford and Sony have announced that PlayStation 3s will be able to participate in Cure@PS3, making gamers' consoles massively parallelized computing nodes for the Folding@Home project. What is Folding@home? Well, in a nutshell you can donate your processor's spare cycles (when it's not computing for you, that is) to the incredibly complex study of protein folding; possible uses for the data including curing many forms of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and all sorts of other diseases.'
Source: Engadget