Innovations are getting bolder and better as years pass. And while your ultimate tech dreams aren't quite here yet, inventions have been progressing fast. One of the latest is an app where your smartphone can help cure cancer while you are sleeping. Apparently, there is an app for that now called DreamLab.

So what exactly does this DreamLab do? The app enables users to help power the research to cure cancer by "donating" their smartphone's processing power while they sleep. The idea here is to use a network of smartphones to help cancer research through their combined processing power. That sounds a little vague isn't it?

Let's break it down more. So when you plugged in your smartphones and it gets fully charge, Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research will send a tiny genetic sequencing task to your smartphone to solve. Once it's completed, that data will be sent back to the Institute. This data can then be used as part of their research on cancer.

DreamLab users can select which cancer project they can contribute data to. They can select whether it would be breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer and/or prostate cancer. With about 1,000 smartphones using DreamLab, Vodafone says they help speed up the Garvan's Institute research by 30 times.

The users, aside from selecting what research they would like to help, can also select how much data limit they would like to contribute. Users have the option to donate 250MB, 500MB, and 1GB data to the research. They can choose whether to send data using their mobile network or using Wi-Fi allowing those users on limited data plan to still be able to contribute. The app is also made in a way that it stops once the user is already at their data plan limit. This is to ensure that the user will not be incurring a big bill.

Garvan Institute's Dr. Warren Kaplan says that there are a lot of research questions to answer but needs a lot of computing power that it would normally cost too much and too long to complete. But with DreamLab, it will help them have a free access to a dedicated supercomputer that will give their cancer research the much needed boost it needs by making the progress faster and thus giving the cancer patients and their families hope of bringing the cure is closer than it is before.

DreamLab is an app created by the mobile network company Vodaphone. It is launched at their Australian unit by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. And if you're interested don't worry; though DreamLab has been launched in Australia, the app is available to all Android users through the Google Play Store. iOS users who are interested on supporting it will just have to wait as Vodafone is still working on adopting a version of the app for you.