Electricity from football- 'Soccket'

From last couple of decades, Electricity has became a part of our life. It is being used extensively in everyday life. But unfortunately about one third of world's population is living without electricity and one of the major cause of this is poverty. 

Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman, in 2008, founded a company names Uncharted Play. The two were part of an engineering class for non-engineers. They were given an assignment to come up with an idea so as to tackle some of the global problem.  Matthews, whose family is Nigeria, knew about power problems where less than 25% of population has access to reliable electricity. Keeping these in their minds, they both came up with the idea of 'Soccket'.

The Soccket may look like a soccer ball, but it's an energy source as well. Its use is very simple like that of a soccer ball. When kicking the Soccket, the internal mechanism converts the kinetic energy into electricity. So by kicking it for around half an hour, we get enough energy to charge a basic cell phone.  Thus a full charge, 72 hours, can be had for 16 hours of play.
The basic idea for developing such a source of electricity is not only restricted to provide an electric supply to those people who don't have electric supply but also to save the environment from toxic material that came out by burning or fuels to meet the need.
The current version of Soccket is flammable because an inflammable version didn't worked. The Soccket is two ounces heavier than a standard soccer ball. The Charted Play is still working on it to make it bouncy. 

The company has tested the balls in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil and parts of Africa and conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year.  It’s now taking online orders through its website.

Matthews has said there are hopes of expanding to other sports, such as basketball. People across the globe may soon find themselves powering their homes by doing something as delightful and simple as playing a game.