Video games are awesome.  Now, I'm an XBox 360 girl myself - although I own a PS3 - and I can guarantee you that a crapton of XBoxes couldn't pull off some of the amazing things that a crapton of PS3s wired together can.  To prove it, the Air Force spent a shitton of money on 1,700 PS3s (yes, that's right, seventeen hundred PS3s), so they could hook'em all together and hopefully simulate what exactly goes on in a human brain.

PS3s are powerful systems, and, while the nearly 2,000 systems that will be linked together aren't going to be quite as smart as some other super-computers, they are (believe it or not) a greener way to go - using less power and somehow knowing to shut off PS3s that aren't "thinking" at that moment in time.

Awesome sauce.

(H/T to Xbrad for reminding me about this story.)

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