…no. But this is still pretty cool; a group of students at Harvard have developed a soccer ball that becomes charged with electrical energy through use. When it’s fully charged, you can use it to power simple devices like cell phones and LED lights.
Obviously this isn’t going to drive nuclear power plants or solar panel manufacturers out of business, but the idea of harvesting pre-existing kinetic energy to create electricity is definitely interesting. If only we could harvest the energy generated by sitting on your ass and blogging, we’d be set.
Links to more information on sOccket – http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2010/02/01/soccket-a-soccer-ball-that-generates-and-stores-renewable-energy/
http://www.soccket.com/
