Your smartphone can contribute to cancer research while you sleep

We've come to terms with the fact that our smartphones need to be charged daily, so we just charge them while we sleep. A new initiative means that they can have a meaningful contribution to cancer research while we sleep.

Vodafone's DreamLab is described as the first "smartphone supercomputer." It uses the power of idle smartphones to process small problems and send results back to research teams.

This is similar to the SETI project, which called upon desktop PCs to process data generated by radio telescopes looking for extra-terrestrial life.