When i say we, i mean me, but i expect the organization to grow to maybe two to three members within the next five years. Harvard grads jessica matthews and julia silverman, cofounders of uncharted play, the organization that distributes the soccket. With reporting focused on general science, nasa, and the intersection between technology and. Much more than a normal soccer ball, the soccket is a portable generator that provides fun and power to those who play with it.
Every morning, the editorial team at public radios international news. Last year we talked a bit about the soccket soccer ball, or football depending on where you are from, when it turned up on kickstarter. To celebrate the beginning of the new season, several shows on national public radio have included segments on baseball books. A team of harvard university students used technology that converts kinetic energy into electric power to create the soccket. The soccket soccer ball turns the energy of motion, or kinetic energy, into electricity. Founded by matthews when she was just 22, uncharted powers flagship product is the soccket ball, an energygenerating soccer ball that provides offgrid power for the. This sweepingly beautiful bookcase design comes from the 2010 furniture collection of the italian furniture house, saba. View the wfyi, pbs and npr broadcast schedules wfyi. At the tedwomen conference in san francisco, a range of speakers shared the ways innovation and. Onstage, matthews snaps a 3led lamp into her soccer ball, drawing ahhhs. The product, dubbed soccket, can run a light bulb or a mobile phone from its stored energy limitededition prototypes of the ball will be. Leading women inventors of the 21st century were asked to avail themselves for interviews and submit. We here at the vanatoo haters association focus on all of the things wrong with the vanatoo line of products.
Digital unicorn wildly inspired content for innovators, dreamers. It was the flagship product of uncharted play, incorporated now uncharted power. At the age of 22, she founded uncharted play, a renewable energy company specializing in motionbased, miniaturized power systems. The soccket harnesses the kinetic motion energy of the soccer ball during normal game play and stores it for later power needs. She has also reported for npr, pbs television, the bbc world service, and the guardian. Locker bookshelf full size house, home magazine, diy. Soccket soccer ball that provides light to poor kids for night reading. What the soccket is and what it is not nextbillion. Once a year, when the famous new years eve ball takes place and guests from all over the world. This is a nonscientific explanation to understand a how memories are stored in the brain b how these memoriesfeelings can be affected when dementia is involved and c how your understanding of. Soccket ball turns playtime into power kids discover.
They called their product the soccket, formed a forprofit company, and began selling it to corporations and foundations in the u. A unique and thoughtful bookpart memoir, part social science, part selfhelpexplores the abiding mystery of the motherchild bond. I would use this a display for vases, photos, model cars. The world loves vanatoos products, but not us here at the vha. As a result, households use kerosene lamps, diesel generators, and wood burning stoves, which are harmful to the environment and cause nearly 2 million deaths per year. Through her harrowing trip, there was a lot of singing beatles tunes to herself, hallucinating and. This was lcls first tournament which meant using a traditional, hard, leather ball.
Click here to discover our most recent bestsellers. Skull bookshelf sculptures bookshelf design, creative. The sabr bookshelf society for american baseball research. The soccket is a soccer ball does double duty on the soccer field and in the study room. When someone plays with the ball, a mechanism inside. Getting a foothold the soccket, an innovative soccer ball that. Choir director jonathan ball says he was surprised when the choir was asked to sing the times they are achangin at the march. The one on the bookshelf was a heavy duplicate, left out to entice the curious. Wrembel visited the fresh air studio to talk about his musical influences and to play, with his trio. The bookshelf conversation discussions about all things baseball with authors, journalists, filmmakers, musicians, artists, et al. It looks like the prototype dogoodergimmick a football soccer ball that produces and stores electricity, which can power a solar lantern at night.
Dave winfield, author of dropping the ball, gary sheffield inside power, and cait murphy crazy 08, were all recent guests on the leonard lopate show. Impoverished kids love the soccer ball that powers a lamp until it breaks. As a pbs and npr member station, wfyi features a range of original, pbs and npr programming for tv and radio. Nell greenfieldboyce is a npr science correspondent. As a result, households use kerosene lamps, diesel generators, and wood burning stoves, which are harmful to the environment and cause nearly 2.
Every weekday, hear two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special sometimes quirky features on all things considered. Indepth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Using the head to redirect a soccer ball or to score a goal thats an integral part of the game, especially as players become more skilled. This week, we read a short article over at npr about bookshelf, a blogturnedbook by alex johnson about you guessed. The sabr bookshelf is a listing of books received at the sabr office. Some women are notoriously sensitive about their age. The energyharnessing soccer ball by uncharted play. Cool bookcase designs best of cool and unique bookshelves designs for inspiration. He didnt know the song, and neither did most of the. Soccket is a soccer ball that harnesses and stores energy from play for later use as portable power source in resourcepoor areas. Matthews, hemali thakkar, who were at the time undergraduates at harvard university, and. If a fan catches a baseball, does the fan have taxable income. Cofounder jessica matthews launched the soccket back in 2008, saying she had helped develop a soccer ball that converts kinetic energy into power. Entertainment and arts forum books, celebrities, movies.
It weighs just about 2 ounces more than a standard ball and powers a few hours of postplay homework, cutting down on the use of kerosene and other fuels in the home. From 1985 to 1996 he worked at national public radio as deputy senior foreign editor, managing editor, and editorial director. The bookshelf for boys and girls volume 5 things to make and things to do the editorial board of the university society on. At 64, the inspirational longdistance swimmer says shes in her prime. Forbidden bookshelf 27 book series kindle edition from book 1. Its the size of a bookshelf, and is freestanding so you can move into your home without drilling holes in the wall. The acclaimed author of museum pieces explores her ferocious need for perfection that caused a 22year gap in writing after initially publishing five literary novels between the ages of 27 and 37. A new player will hit the field when longtime only a game host, bill littlefield, retires this month. But that doesnt mean americans cant use soccer as a canvas for incredible innovation. Our kids had been playing with the softer youth ball, which resembles a heavy tennis ball. What do 64yearold swimmer diana nyad and yearold entrepreneur maya penn have in common. We like products that solve problems and the soccket energyharnessing soccer ball solves more than just one. The soccket is a soccer ball with a twist a generator inside that turns. Dover childrens classics there is a copy of mary shelleys frankenstein sitting on my desk.
That way, children living in offgrid communities can play with a single soccket ball as a team at school and still have their own personal light for reading and homework at home each night. Each portable power kit consists of 1 soccket and 10 portable lamps. The soccket ball can create about 3 hours of light from an led after 30 minutes of playing. The winners are a heartwarming city kids tale, a chinese. This week, we read a short article over at npr about bookshelf, a blogturnedbook by alex johnson about you guessed it the bookshelf in all its glory. The ball stores enough energy after just thirty minutes of play to run an led lamp for three hours, so a child can read at night. All tech considered what do 64yearold swimmer diana nyad and yearold entrepreneur maya.
In innovation, age is nothing but a number recordbreaking longdistance swimmer diana nyad speaks at the tedwomen conference in. Traveling with president jakaya kikwete of tanzania on tuesday, obama toured the umbungo symbion power plant, where they saw a demonstration of the powergenerating soccket ball. Thats what christian lopez is wondering after the 23yearold caught derek jeters home run, which was the yankees stars 3,000th career hit. The soccket is, exactly as its punny name suggests, both a soccer ball and a light socket. Does it matter whether the fan sells the baseball on ebay, or gives it back to the hitter, as lopez actually did, but then receives free tickets and merchandise from the yankees in appreciation. At the age of 19, jessica invented the soccket ball, an energy generating soccer ball that provides offgrid power for the developing world. Entertainment and arts books, celebrities, movies, music, tv, video games, radio, arts. At the tedwomen conference in san francisco on thursday, she recounted her successful fifth attempt to swim from cuba to florida. Childrens classics to read during quarantine with few new books coming in, our kids books columnist turns to the favorite reads of her childhood beginning with the 19thcentury classic five. But the ball the audience had seen floating weighed only five ounces. Way up in the swiss mountains, theres an old grand hotel steeped in tradition and faded splendor.
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