You know what PS3 owners apparently like to do with their systems beyond playing games - folding. No, not clothes or sheets or anything like that, but rather folding to find scientific cures for diseases out there. See, PS3 users are caring people, because there are already 30,000 PS3 users folding already.

From the article:

More than 30,000 PlayStation 3 owners have signed up for Stanford University's Folding@home project since its launch in firmware update 1.60 on March 23.

The Folding@home endeavour is similar to the University of California-Berkeley's SETI@home project, which uses the processing power of idle PCs to search the stars for extraterrestrial life. Folding@home taps into spare PC processing power, and also that of PS3s, to study the causes of diseases including Alzheimer's, cancer, and cystic fibrosis.

Read the full article over at gamespot.com