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How Cool is this? From Wired:

University of California scientists are building a distributed earthquake-detection system that uses the accelerometers inside many notebooks, including MacBooks

The idea is basically to create a huge grid of earthquake detectors using the motion sensors in laptops which report over the internet and could give valuable seconds to people about to be hit by an earthquake. Think of it like seti at home only for earth quakes.
[Read Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection]