Soccket Kinetic football By Nigerian Jessica Matthews
Imagine your phone is flat and you are completely out of a valuable power source and all you have to do is pick up a football and play for 30 minutes, connect your phone and watch it recharge.
That sounds like science fiction but to our surprise 25-year-old Nigerian, Jessica Matthews believes in a Nigeria where impossibility is nothing.
It was an inciting Friday, yesterday, when President Goodluck Jonathan played host to a 25-year-old Nigerian, Jessica Matthews, who invented a power-generating football tagged Soccket ball.
The co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unchartedplay, Ms. Matthews, was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to present the ball, capable of generating a three-hour light from 30 minutes of play to President Jonathan, in addition to presentation of an energy-generating skipping rope to the President.
Congratulating Ms Matthews on her creative invention, Jonathan expressed excitement on Matthews’s ability to train as a psychologist and economist, and transform by developing herself in the field of other sciences.
He said Matthews’s invention is a proof of the quality of human resource existing in Nigeria.
The invention, he said, was useful as a major tool that could be used to mobilize young Nigerians and encourage them to think more deeply.
In her remarks, Matthews said that sometimes power is lost and she wonders on what could be done to solve the situation.
“… I saw my cousins and everyone playing football, playing with everything not even with football alone. I say this is amazing and they can rival Messi. If we can take this kinetic that is generated here and use it to address the issues that we really have; kinetic energy is used for windmill, why not the ball?” she declared.
She said although the items were already on sale in New York, she had not started making them in Nigeria.
She, however, said when they would be made available for sale in Nigeria, the cost would be equivalent to what people pay for a solar inverter.
The mission of her company, she disclosed is to “Foster well-being by inspiring people to lead playful lives.”
Also speaking, Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Segun Aganga, said the Federal Government was looking at the possibilities of manufacturing the items in Nigeria and see how to make them cheaper for Nigerians.
Emphasizing that additional thing is that the Soccket ball product is actually versatile, which entails that it is not just about the electricity, “You can use it to charge your mobile phones, for fans, so there are so many things for which it can be used.”
Soccket Kinetic football By Nigerian Jessica Matthews
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