The PS3 has this slightly irritating flaw in that to charge the wireless controllers you need to have the playstation powered on (i.e. you can't charge with the PS3 on standby).
To this ying there is a yang; as the PS3 is on anyway I like to donate the power to the
Folding @ Home project, what's nice is they give me a cool stats page to follow my progress...
I think the guys should configure some kind of RSS Feed for each completed work unit so we can share the love in a lifestream :)