Jessica Lin, Julia Silverman,
Jessica O. Matthews, Hemali Thakkar, who were at the time undergraduates at Harvard University, and Aviva Presser, who was a Harvard graduate student at the time, were the inventors listed on the initial patent. Prototypes of the ball first appeared in the media in early 2010. The mass-produced version of the ball is the brainchild of Uncharted Play, Inc.—a social enterprise founded by two of the original inventors,
Jessica O. Matthews and Julia C. Silverman. According to Engineering for Change, the product was discontinued in 2016. Uncharted, the company which made it, led as of 2021 by
Jessica O. Matthews, no longer features the product on their website, but notes that the company initially worked on "energy-generating play products" before shifting to other areas. ==Media reaction==