Without massive improvements in battery technology, most of us are going to be charging our devices every night, and while our devices are charging overnight they’re generally doing nothing – but what if we could put our devices to work while we are asleep? That’s exactly what one app, DreamLab, is aiming to do. DreamLab is a collaboration between the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Vodafone Foundation in Australia and wants to use your phone to help solve problems to contribute to cancer research.
By downloading and keeping the DreamLab app running overnight, people can contribute to research for breast, ovarian, prostate of pancreatic cancer. In the app, you’ll have a choice of contributing downloads over Wi-Fi (250MB, 500MB or 1GB over a month) and/or mobile data (50MB, 250MB or 500MB over a month), and the app will only run while your device is plugged into AC and is above 95% charged. In doing this, you’ll help accelerate the research happening at the Garvan Institute – it’s estimated that 100,000 devices running the app will allow the Institute to process data 3,000 times faster.
Of course, the app is completely free to run, and if you’re on the Vodafone Australia network, the mobile data won’t even count towards your quota. To download the app and start contributing, hit the Play Store link below to see what it’s all about:
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Source: Mashable
