Folding@home gets 'Good Design' award

by Andrew Yoon { Nov 7th 2008 at 6:00PM }

Have you cured cancer lately? Maybe not, because you're too busy playing the excellent games on PS3 right now. But, why not take some time this weekend to launch Life With PlayStation and fold some proteins. (Join us at Group #57793.) Now is the best time to jump in the cancer-saving fun, especially because of a new award donned to the service.

The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization awarded Sony Computer Entertainment the "Good Design Gold Award 2008" for the support of the Folding@home project on PS3. "Analysis of proteins for the purpose of shedding light on diseases is just one example of solution design for social issues, a stance that indicates the direction that design should take in the future. Motivating the people who will be involved in these studies will be the key to success, but the program functions well as an idea for making participation in this project visible on a global scale."

So yeah, let's celebrate and fold at home this weekend!

Tags: good-design

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shimmy123 @ Nov 7th 2008 6:15PM

Im up for that :)

Devil240Z @ Nov 7th 2008 6:36PM

i have it so if i leave my ps3 on the xmb FAH auto starts.

Jerses @ Nov 7th 2008 6:37PM

No time to fold...time to play!!!!!

Dahk @ Nov 7th 2008 7:22PM

I'll call that and raise you an LBP level.

glitched @ Nov 7th 2008 6:42PM

except life with playstation's design of folding sucks now. It's not very intuitive for newcomers to switch between life and folding.

JK @ Nov 7th 2008 7:04PM

I've had no problems with it, but it's true that the functionality and what buttons to use could be a bit more clear for casual users. One thing to keep in mind is that folding is running regardless of whether you're in the News or Folding sections. It's always running in the background, you just don't get to watch it if you're in the News section.