homesteady: Thank GOD she is neither yoruba or igbo
She's from my state!! Edo state people are the most intelligent in Nigeria!

Thank God she is from Edo state, because she will be the first useful person from Edo stste, while others are wasting their life in Italy doing what Flavour called Ashawo.

homesteady: Thank GOD she is neither yoruba or igbo
She's from my state!! Edo state people are the most intelligent in Nigeria!

Myopic IDOT

hmmmm

is this shoddy reporting, or is jessica matthews ripping off the real inventors of this product in conjunction with our fg?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9902591/Kickstarting-the-electricity-generating-football.html

Football is by far the most popular sport in the world. Everyday you can find millions of people playing football be it on a field or in an alley.

But have you ever seen a football that can generate electricity? Well… look no further.

Four undergraduate students at Harvard Business School have recently devised a simple, yet innovative method of harvesting the kinetic energy from a football. All you require is a magnetic slug, an inductive coil and a capacitor. As the sOccket rolls, the magnetic slug slides back and forth inside an inductive coil in the ball, generating power which is stored in the capacitor.

After just 15 minutes of play, their sOccket ball could provide families in sub-Saharan Africa – where less than 25% of the population has access to reliable electricity – with 3 hours of LED light, a clean efficient alternate to kerosene lamps.

The ball has been field-tested in South Africa during the World Cup. sOccket 2.0 has an embedded DC jack and weighs only 5 ounces more than a FIFA-regulated ball.

Now this is a simple and innovative devise that is highly effective.

september 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23152423

During the final day of his three-country tour of Africa, US President Obama made time to fit in a kickabout with an energy-generating football.

The "socketball", the idea of two Harvard students, converts the kinetic energy of the ball's movement into stored electrical energy, and just half an hour's play is apparently enough to provide hours of light.

Tom Esslemont reports

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unchartedplay/soccket-the-energy-harnessing-soccer-ball

Much more than a normal soccer ball, the SOCCKET is a portable generator that provides fun and power to those who play with it.

http://www.globalenvision.org/2011/12/16/soccket-soccer-ball-generates-electricity

Could soccer help the developing world score more electricity? sOccket, a plug-in soccer ball that captures energy during a game and uses it to charge LEDs and batteries, could be a game changer.

Developed by four Harvard University students connected by their travels to Africa and other developing nations, the idea for the sOccket was originally kicked around for an engineering course assignment, explains the Harvard Gazette. Their ingenious concept involves inserting a soccer ball with an inductive coil mechanism that transforms the toy into an eco-friendly portable generator. The kinetic movement of the sOcket ball propels a magnet through a coil that induces a voltage to generate electricity.

The newest ball requires as little as 10 minutes of play time to generate three hours of energy on an LED light. "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," observes the blog Social Innovation.

Currently most African nations use kerosene, an expensive and toxic substance, to power their homes. However, sOccket is sidelining the oil-based fuel. With over 46 million soccer players in Africa alone, soccer has become the continent's most electric sport.

wow!


http://unchartedplay.com/about/

the chick is for real!

i take it all back!