Freeplay – Electricity Independent Electronics

Freeplay is a firm that produces self energy sufficient electronic products such as radios and torch lights. Freeplay says “When Freeplay creates technologies and adapts them to products; our goal is to provide freedom and independence through reliability. The result of achieving this goal is empowerment. We conduct our business in such a way that we help to empower people; whether they are our customers, our investors, recipients of special aid from NGOs, or members of our team.”

Freeplay’s Lifeline radio, for example, is a wind-up energy and solar powered multi-band radio that could be used in rural areas without electricity. It doesn’t require batteries and developed to be used in the harshest conditions. It could play up to 24 hours with full charge and used to provide useful information to the mass and critical information during emergencies. It is something that could be operated by kids and adults and heard by groups of 40. For Freeplay, the radio has been a tool for communication, education and hope in their humanitarian projects.

Freeplay supports Freeplay Foundation, which is committed to providing innovative and practical energy solutions to ensure sustained access to information via radio. The fact is the first Lifeline radios were distributed to Burundian youth living in refugee camps in Tanzania by the foundation.

Links:

http://www.freeplayenergy.com/index.php?section=products
http://www.freeplayenergy.com/index.php?section=humanitarian&subsection=projects
http://www.freeplayfoundation.org