it's called soccket. stores like a portable generator to power small electrical appliances that are critical to the developing world. [applause] >> thanks. yeah, my parents like it, too. so, you know, the idea for us -- we noticed -- we don't want to try to fix all the energy problems we simply want to address them, raise awareness about the global energy problems but, specifically, we wanted our means of addressing this problem to be fun. and i think that says a lot about our generation. i can't stand to be bored and i don't think your life needs to be a constant reminder what you lack. when we came up with the soccket it wasn't to be better than hand creeks but to be fun. why can't you start to address the problems you have, why can't that be something that can boost your happiness? and in that same vein empower you to start thinking why not versus why and make these people in these resources of poor communities. and i founded a company with my -- one of the coinventers named julia silverman called unch

a soccket harnesses the power of play a while you play with that.n be used to power small appliances critical to developing worlds. [applause] my parents like it, too. the idea for us, we do not want to try to fix all the problems. we want to raise awareness about the global energy problem. we wanted this problem to be fun. that's as a lot about our generation. i do not think your life is to be a reminder of what you lack. we want to be fun. the minute you tried to do it, why can that be something that will boost your happiness? and empower you to start thinking, why not verses of why? fast toward a few years. i founded a company with one of the coinventors. i now run an innovative company where we produce on products and services. >> that is awesome. [applause] >> i am 25 years old. i'm from california. like many of you, i majored in political science in college and thought the next that was law school. somewhere along the way i came out to d.c. and worked on the hill. i got this feeling that i kept wanting to scratch. i started to work on issues t

walked in the room and we pushed, pushed, pushed and we came out with this crazy thing called the soccket. none of us were engineers. we said it will work, physics, high school, it will work. no engineers believed us. so we literally had wikipedia, thank you jesus for the internet. and then build it ourselves. and then go to engineers and say, see? and all the engineers said oh. for me the moment i realized this is something i should do with my life came when i saw the change in people the minute i showed them the ball. i don't care if you're 50 or five, go to the committee and say i will give you a ball. not a bottle cap or whatever thing before, a solid ball. and eco-friendly ball, everything. and then by the way, after 50 minutes you get three hours. they just say what? on all of a sudden the way they feel function and the way they assumed the world should be just change. they start to question the status quo. within 20 minutes ago from off to your ball is great but i've all these other ideas. this inspiration that comes out of it i was like it's one thing to say you want to be an inno