{"id":644680,"date":"2013-02-28T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=767579"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:36:37","slug":"the-soccket-is-an-electricity-generating-soccer-ball-for-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644680","title":{"rendered":"The Soccket Is An Electricity-Generating Soccer Ball For The Developing World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re positively sure no one ever in the history of the world looked at a soccer ball and thought of it as anything more than just a soccer ball. That\u2019s why we\u2019re a little astounded at SOCCKET<\/a>, just a normal soccer ball… that also doubles as a portable generator.<\/p>\n

You take SOCCKET and play around with it just as you would with an ordinary soccer ball. Dribble, score some goals, take a few good-natured kicks at people\u2019s heads.<\/p>\n

SOCCKET then takes all of that kinetic energy from rolling around and hitting people\u2019s heads and converts it into electrical energy. SOCCKET also includes a tiny LED lamp that can be plugged into the ball. 30 minutes of play with SOCCKET can power the lamp for 3 hours. <\/p>\n

SOCCKET\u2019s aim, of course, is to be a little more than a novelty item gathering dust on the shelves of The Sharper Image. What may seem like a cool \u201cgimmicky\u201d gadget to us is surely a lot more than that to developing regions of the world with limited access to electricity.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably why SOCCKET is currently being tested into \u201cresource-poor\u201d areas of North America, South America, and Africa. When you add that factor to soccer\u2019s (aka football\u2019s) overall popularity worldwide, this all sounds like it could be a real winner.<\/p>\n

SOCCKET is currently fundraising over at Kickstarter<\/a>, with a starting pledge of $89. <\/p>\n

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We\u2019re positively sure no one ever in the history of the world looked at a soccer ball and thought of it as anything more than just a soccer ball. That\u2019s why we\u2019re a little astounded at SOCCKET, just a normal soccer ball… that also doubles as a portable generator. You take SOCCKET and play around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}