The only way it could be done is as an add-in board, that some software might be able to take advantage of. It wouldn't be of use as the primary CPU since as everyone has pointed out already, you can't run Windows or most other PC software on it.
As an add-in card, it could be used as a special purpose co-processor, kind of like the Phys-X physics accelerators, or indeed like any GPUs these days. But it's hard to see exactly what purpose it would serve. As shown by the Folding@Home project, the Cell is half way between the capabilities of a standard CPU, and the GP-GPU type chips. Most of the computers you'd consider adding the Cell card to would already have both a standard CPU and a GP-GPU.
A niche within a niche isn't much of a market.
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