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Energy-harvesting soccer ball gets a kickstart
Elizabeth Montalbano
3/14/2013 1:02 PM EDT
A New York-based startup is taking the idea of energy harvesting to a more philanthropic level through the use of something that can be found in nearly every country in the world--a soccer ball.
The founders of Uncharted Play Inc. have developed a prototype soccer ball, called SOCCKET, that captures the kinetic energy created when it is kicked or thrown. The ball -- born out of an undergraduate project at Harvard University and developed in part by company co-founders Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman -- stores that energy in an internal battery that can be used later.
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The founders of Uncharted Play Inc. have developed a prototype soccer ball, called SOCCKET, that captures the kinetic energy created when it is kicked or thrown. The ball -- born out of an undergraduate project at Harvard University and developed in part by company co-founders Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman -- stores that energy in an internal battery that can be used later.
Click to read the rest of this article on Design News.
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DrQuine
3/14/2013 10:23 PM EDT
The ball "uses an energy harvester inside that swings like a pendulum whenever the ball moves". Does this mean that it moves in an erratic pattern because of the moving mass inside? It might be annoying to the ball players.
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mike_vlsi
3/15/2013 4:26 AM EDT
Lets hope it doesn't stop before crossing the goal line compare to normal ball :)
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