Comments on: Charge Your Cell Phone With a Soccer Ball http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:57:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Soccer Balls http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-157082 Soccer Balls Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:55:05 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-157082 Great Post..... I found your site on stumbleupon and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road! Great Post…..

I found your site on stumbleupon and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

]]> By: Applesauce http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156867 Applesauce Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:49:40 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156867 This is just a scheme by the African Nations' respective football associations to improve the quality of their country's players. Now the kids are going to be outside all day and night in order for the lights at home to work. You thought Drogba was good, wait ten years. :D But seriously, interesting application of something that's been around forever. It's the same exact concept as a "self-powered" flashlight (or torch, to you Brits) in a completely impractical application. This is just a scheme by the African Nations’ respective football associations to improve the quality of their country’s players. Now the kids are going to be outside all day and night in order for the lights at home to work. You thought Drogba was good, wait ten years. :D

But seriously, interesting application of something that’s been around forever. It’s the same exact concept as a “self-powered” flashlight (or torch, to you Brits) in a completely impractical application.

]]> By: Helge http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156863 Helge Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:51:33 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156863 Wow, that's amazing. I hope it'll be a wordlwide success! Wow, that’s amazing. I hope it’ll be a wordlwide success!

]]> By: Lee http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156852 Lee Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:26:50 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156852 ^ Can't tell if you're a robot or using a terrible translator. This kind of stuff makes the engineering I do at work all day seem really lame in comparison. Great idea. ^ Can’t tell if you’re a robot or using a terrible translator.

This kind of stuff makes the engineering I do at work all day seem really lame in comparison. Great idea.

]]> By: Biodun Taiwo http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156845 Biodun Taiwo Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:22:58 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156845 Imagine of been de best in de world.bt neva hose js a world cup,in ther lave is gud.pls [MR FIFA]tel thm 2 hoset js 1cup. Imagine of been de best in de world.bt neva hose js a world cup,in ther lave is gud.pls [MR FIFA]tel thm 2 hoset js 1cup.

]]> By: Elliott http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156833 Elliott Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:23:54 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156833 When I first saw "inductive coil mechanism" I thought, oh great, another John Terry headline. But yeah, this is amazingly cool - the buy one/send one method has been used brilliantly by Tom's Shoes (a california NGO that sends alpargatas err shoes to third world countries). Cool find Darryl! When I first saw “inductive coil mechanism” I thought, oh great, another John Terry headline.

But yeah, this is amazingly cool – the buy one/send one method has been used brilliantly by Tom’s Shoes (a california NGO that sends alpargatas err shoes to third world countries).

Cool find Darryl!

]]> By: Mustafa http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156832 Mustafa Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:46:56 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156832 Doesn't anyone else see this scenario happening? Mother: "BOYS! THE LIGHTS ARE OUT! GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY FOOTBALL!" Boys: "BUT MOM, I'M TIRED OF PLAYING FOOTBALL! CAN'T I STAY IN AND STUDY UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE KEROSENE LAMP?" Mother: "GO NOW BEFORE I COME AND WHOOP YOU WITH MY SANDAL! GO KICK THE BALL AROUND FOR 30-45 MINUTES!" Boys: **Grumbling** "Ugh, my feet hurt from playing football outside in Africa and kicking rocks as well as this stupid heavy ball with electronics inside it... couldn't they have given us a solar panel that stores a charge like that other village instead?" (With all that said, I definitely want one when I go to Sudan this summer) Doesn’t anyone else see this scenario happening?

Mother: “BOYS! THE LIGHTS ARE OUT! GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY FOOTBALL!”
Boys: “BUT MOM, I’M TIRED OF PLAYING FOOTBALL! CAN’T I STAY IN AND STUDY UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE KEROSENE LAMP?”
Mother: “GO NOW BEFORE I COME AND WHOOP YOU WITH MY SANDAL! GO KICK THE BALL AROUND FOR 30-45 MINUTES!”
Boys: **Grumbling** “Ugh, my feet hurt from playing football outside in Africa and kicking rocks as well as this stupid heavy ball with electronics inside it… couldn’t they have given us a solar panel that stores a charge like that other village instead?”

(With all that said, I definitely want one when I go to Sudan this summer)

]]> By: wob http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156831 wob Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:03:05 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156831 Imagine all kinds of football leagues around the world selling their electricity to electricity corporations... Also the financial crisis in football is solved. Imagine all kinds of football leagues around the world selling their electricity to electricity corporations…

Also the financial crisis in football is solved.

]]> By: Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156830 Daryl Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:40:22 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156830 Presumably the community in possession of the ball. It's not as if there'd be enough energy stored in the ball that a government or corporation would be interested in taking it away from the community. Presumably the community in possession of the ball. It’s not as if there’d be enough energy stored in the ball that a government or corporation would be interested in taking it away from the community.

]]> By: Luka http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html/comment-page-1#comment-156827 Luka Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:07:06 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/charge-your-cell-phone-with-a-soccer-ball.html#comment-156827 Hmm, but who gets to use the electricity generated?? Hmm, but who gets to use the electricity generated??

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