[pjin]

I'm not a condensed matter researcher, but from what I know these particular majorana fermions are quasiparticles, so it's a little misleading to directly compare this to the Higgs boson which is an elementary particle. Still, this is cool because it means topological quantum computing might be possible:

http://stationq.cnsi.ucsb.edu/~freedman/Publications/96.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=154238