NEWS
>> Check out our recentCNN article about sOccket in South Africa with Julia!
More to come soon!
sOccket 2.0: This Summer!
Our newest prototypes will be traveling with sOccket team members all around the world!
Follow our adventures on our blog:
>> www.soccket.posterous.com <<
Julia: World Cup in South Africa
Hemali: Liberia
Jessica M: Nigeria
Jessica L: Boston
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Check out these amazing moves by coaches at Winter Camp in Lavender Hill, South Africa!
Need
In most African countries, 95% of the population is living with no access to electricity (World Bank Millennium Goals Report, 2006). The World Bank estimates that breathing the fumes created from burning kerosene indoors equals the harmful effects of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
Ball
The sOccket is a soccer ball that captures the energy during game play to charge LEDs and batteries. After playing with the ball, the child can return home and use the ball to connect a LED lamp to read, study, or illuminate the home.
The ball uses an inductive coil mechanism to generate energy. Our product is still in prototyping stage, where 15 minutes of play can light 3 hours of LED light. We look forward to learning more with beta tests throughout Africa this summer 2010!
sOccket 2.0 with simple lamp plugged in.
Take a look at this AMAZING video that our fantastic design firm XYZ made!
www.dddxyz.com
About Us
We are four young women who met in a Harvard
engineering class in the fall of 2008.
Having all spent time in Africa, we wanted to translate the positive energy of soccer and children we had seen on fields and playgrounds in Africa to their lives off the field and into their homes.
Universal Love of Soccer + Need for Energy = sOccket!
Supporters:
Awista Ayub
Professor David Edwards
Aviva Presser
Hugo Van Vuuren
Jay Lin, Attorney-at-Law
Jessica Matthews, Jessica Lin, Hemali Thakkar, Julia Silverman
Partner:
WhizzKids United
Awarded Funding By:
Harvard Institute for Global Health
Clinton Global Initiative University
Photos
Stay tuned for photos and videos from Summer 2010, when we will be testing sOccket 2.0 in South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, and Boston!
Photos from Pilot Study, Summer 2009 in Durban, South Africa
All photos are copyright of sOccket. Please do not use without explicit permission - see our Press page for more information.
Selected Press
** Recently featured on CNN.com - see our live interview here!
*Boston Herald - June 27, 2010
*TakePart.com- June 8, 2010
* Aol Gnn.com - June 11, 2010
* Gizmodo- June 12, 2010
*BusinessWeek- April 27, 2010
* Reader's Digest- April 27, 2010
* NYMag- February 8, 2010
* Fast Company- January 26, 2010
* NYTimes- January 26, 2010
Press Inquiries
Want to write about the sOccket product, program, or team? Please send all press inquiries to team_soccket.com for more information.
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