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Mothers of Invention
okay this is so fucking rad that I had to post about it immediately. this has been around a few years but I found out about it today while researching for work.
As undergraduates at Harvard, Jessica O. Matthews, Julia Silverman and two of their classmates brainstormed an idea for their engineering class while blaring Britney Spears. Neither of them were engineering majors, but through pure innovation, they created an energy harvesting soccer ball that quite literally empowers communities. Thirty minutes of play with the sOccket powers up to three hours of an LED light.
“If ever there was an innovator, she’s it,” affect their own environments,” said former president Bill Clinton, when he introduced Matthews, at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2011, where she held her own on a stage with bigwigs who confront global power issues.
The girls, who are in their early 20s, invented the sOccket specifically with developing nations in mind. Twenty-five percent of the world’s kids do not have access to electricity, but most of them do play soccer. The young inventors put two and two together and created a ball that uses technology similar to a self-winding watch. As the ball rolls, the mechanism inside rolls with it, harnessing energy and storing it in a battery. A child can play until dusk, and then use that same ball to power a reading lamp throughout the night.
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