• Soccer ball that generates electricity every time it is kicked

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    Kick a ball and light a lamp. That’s what the developers of this unique soccer ball had in mind while creating it. The soccer ball, christened as sOcckets, generates electricity every time it is kicked. Now it can’t power up an entire home, though it can produce enough energy to power up an LED lamp or a small electric device. This can come in handy in far flung African regions where power supply is unheard of and kerosene lamps are used instead to lighten up homes, which can prove a danger to human health. Kerosene lamps also bite our environment by producing around 190 million tons of carbon emissions a year. Soccer is a game played all over the globe, no wonder it is referred to as Gods Own Game. Now you can play your favorite sport and generate electricity at the same time! Kick this ball for 15 minutes and you can power up a LED lamp.


    The developers of this ball plan to market these balls using a buy one-give one strategy, wherein the ball will go on sale in Western countries and the profits from this will be used to distribute balls in African countries. So let’s kick this soccer ball around and generate energy!
    [Planetgreen]

    Posted in Topics:Other Stuff, Tags: , on February 2, 2010