Using your Android phone in the coolest geekiest ways you never imagined -- distributed computing

There is so many people with Android phones, tablets and other devices
out there. Sure, you can brag about Angry Birds with your friends for
a while, but there is a point where you need a cooler way for the
geekiest of geeks to be impressed.

How about if you could have you Android phone plugged at night to
predict earthquakes, cure malaria or find little martians out there?

The original SETI@home project grew to almost half a million active
computers worldwide in the last few years, with an average of 5612
petaFLOPS of computing power. Now hosted at Berkeley University, the
worldwide BOINC community is adding new projects and features to the
already long list of software being run. There is even a jackpot to be
won among those who participate.

But if the computer era was so 20th century, how about the gadgets we
all carry in our pockets, with powerful dual and quad core CPUs and
even more powerful GPUs, for our finger swipping pleasure?

This is where Boincoid comes to play:

http://boincoid.sourceforge.net/faq.html