Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries
I live in Rwanda and see kids playing with the trash/string balls all the time (among other toys they build out of random waste).  I really don't see the point.  The kids have plenty of fun with their homegrown balls.Just as the cardboard box the toy came in came be more fun than the toy alone, the fun of playing with a ball doesn't come from it being a 'proper' ball, but rather than it is a game to be played with others.This is a first world solution to a problem that it created to make itself feel warm and fuzzy inside.