Also arriving is The Sims FreePlay from leading game developer and publisher, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA).
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Freeplay's engineers have since devised several refinements to improve the efficiency of their generators.
In my book FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide to Maximum Euphoric Bliss, I adopted the perspective.
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Lifeline Energy (formerly Freeplay Foundation) addresses energy poverty for women and girls through access to information, education and light.
Freeplay, a brand that had once stood for so much, became a liability.
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According to John Hutchinson, Freeplay's director of engineering, the landmine detector would have been very bulky had it been only spring-driven.
The idea of storing energy from a spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch.
But, says John Hutchinson, Freeplay's director of technology, it typically works out at about 45 seconds' winding for a four- or five-minute call.
Jordan Shapiro is author of Buying Dharma: Reflections on Postural Yoga and Consumerism and FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide to Maximum Euphoric Bliss.
But the ideas in FREEPLAY can also shape childrearing practices.
This proved to be an intelligent move as in August 2010 Freeplay Energy was put into administration, and ultimately, liquidated, while still owing the charity significant funding.
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It brings together phenomenal power and functionality, marked out by the fact it comes with two essential BBC apps and a killer EA Games title in Sims Freeplay.
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As with previous Freeplay products, the FreeCharge will initially be sold to consumers in America and Europe, but it is also intended for use in the developing world.
This basic idea of storing energy from the spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch, which was launched last year.
Jordan Shapiro is author of FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide to Maximum Euphoric Bliss and co-editor of Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement .
In addition to using the Magic Remote to control the onscreen action, players have the option of downloading a convenient remote controller smartphone app specifically designed for The Sims FreePlay.
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The lantern costs a lot more -- around 800 rupees -- but Freeplay hopes it will replace the two to three liters of kerosene used by each family every month.
Huawei has pre-loaded BBC iPlayer and BBC News apps, alongside EA Games' award-winning Sims Freeplay onto the handset to ensure it is the best-informed and most fun purchase from the get-go.
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And here is the opening for the next profit niche with a social purpose, says Rory Stear of Freeplay Energy, the company that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators best known in the 'wind-up radio'.
In this case there would be four winners - the mobile phone users, the telecoms firms, Freeplay, and indirectly the Freeplay Foundation, which distributes wind-up radios to refugees, for example, and to children that are heads of their household because both parents have died, most likely of Aids.
The spring is wound for half a minute, and then unwinds over six minutes, charging a battery in the process, and providing enough energy to run the radio for an hour. (This means the radio's spring-controller circuit is no longer necessary.) Thus, Freeplay has switched from making solely spring-powered devices to making battery-powered devices that are equipped with a clockwork mechanism for recharging and emergency use.
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