Vodafone’s DreamLab App Lets Android Users Help Find Cure to Cancer

You can download the Android app right now from the Play Store and Vodafone is going to launch the app on iOS soon.

This is where the DreamLab comes in, which works by pooling the processing power of Australian phones to create the nation’s first “smartphone supercomputer”. During the dot-com boom, no one dreamt of phones capable of doing little more than making calls or sending text messages, now while you sleep, your smartphone could be doing something much more useful by aiding in the battle against cancer.

The app functions when a smartphone is plugged in and its battery is over 95 per cent charged.

The app relies on a cellular or Wi-Fi connection to receive and transmit data. Most people use them as alarms – but you could be helping to find alien life or cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.

‘The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia is at the forefront of a revolution in cancer research, ‘ Dr. Oakes said.

“Together, we can come to a greater understanding of how to treat it more swiftly”, Dr Samantha Oakes, head of the breast cancer unit at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, said in the statement. With 5 million users, that would increase to 150,000 times.

According to an email communication to Mashable, the company stated that 100,000 DreamLab apps running on smartphones would be able to process data about 3,000 times quicker than they can with their current resources.

“Almost every Australian has a heartbreaking story to tell about cancer”, Jones said.

“DreamLab is free to purchase and incredibly easy to use”. Then the next time you plug your phone in and it sits idle, the app jumps into action and becomes part of a massive computing combine to deliver supercomputing-class ability for the project.

All you have to do is to fully charge your phone and install the app. After you’ve managed to install the application you will be able to choose what type of cancer research you want to help: pancreatic, prostate, breast and ovarian.