Could a group of a computer game players win a Nobel price for finding medicine for HIV or malaria? Possibly in the future if a game called FoldIt manages to gain success and harness the power of smart players all over the wolrd. The game was designed by experts in computer science and biotechnologym, and the purpose of the game is to spur players to solve the mysteries of science all over the world. In FoldIt game the  task is to fold protein to match the best for immune system of human body. Computers can also do this, but the caluclulating capacity needed for right answers might take too many years, so the designers of the game believe more in intution of the gamers. This is an unique example of using crowdsourcing- and making it also fun and exiciting at the same time.

source: Science Daily

It seems that you do not have to be a genius to fly an airoplane. Actually you do not have to be at all: it is enought just to take a pieces of rat brain, turn them to neurons and plug it into the computer. After a while this system learns to fly a jet, when taught so. If you do not believe, check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeV77dSyMI

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