Thursday, June 10, 2010

sOccket--The Power Generating Soccer Ball

The Take Part website has an interesting article on Women Entrepreneurs who developed an energy generating soccer ball to bring blean energy to developing nations.
This Friday, when the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, Adidas’s controversial new game ball, the Jabulani, will finally get its official world premiere. Days later, with far less fanfare but with far more potential for global change, the latest model of another game-changing sphere will make its South African debut: sOccket, a plug-in soccer ball that captures energy during play and stores the juice for later use as a power source.

The beauty of sOccket is that a kid in a developing nation can play a game of soccer after school, leave the playground, take the ball home, plug a basic lamp into a built-in fixture and have enough light to do homework—even if there are no buildings with electricity for 100 miles around...


Read the full artile here

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey, thanks so much for linking to our story and helping giving this awesome project some great exposure!

-Laurel Angelica, TakePart.com

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