Three university students in Santiago, Chile have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones. The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school's courtyard. Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia. It captures the energy plants produce during photosynthesis. A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process. The rest goes into the soil. E-Kaia collects that energy. The device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone. The E-Kaia solved two problems for the engineering students. They needed an idea for a class project. They also needed an outlet to plug in their phones. One of the student inventors, Camila Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones. The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.
Title: Plant Your Mobile Charger in the Dirt
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/plant_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Plant Your Mobile Charger in the Dirt' data-article-id='1116'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9125'>Three university students in Santiago, Chile have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.</span> <span data-start-time='9125' data-end-time='16854'>The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school's courtyard. </span> <span data-start-time='16854' data-end-time='22771'>Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia. </span> <span data-start-time='22771' data-end-time='28542'>It captures the energy plants produce during photosynthesis.</span> <span data-start-time='28542' data-end-time='34896'>A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process. </span> <span data-start-time='34896' data-end-time='37750'>The rest goes into the soil. </span> <span data-start-time='37750' data-end-time='41313'>E-Kaia collects that energy.</span> <span data-start-time='41313' data-end-time='46729'>The device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone.</span> <span data-start-time='46729' data-end-time='52125'>The E-Kaia solved two problems for the engineering students. </span> <span data-start-time='52125' data-end-time='56375'>They needed an idea for a class project.</span> <span data-start-time='56375' data-end-time='61167'>They also needed an outlet to plug in their phones.</span> <span data-start-time='61167' data-end-time='72896'>One of the student inventors, Camila Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.</span> <span data-start-time='72896' data-end-time='79708'>The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/plant_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=4924 data-hint-location='41313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/the_device_plugs_into_the_ground_and_then_into_a__blank_.m4a'>The device plugs into the ground and then into a <span class='blank'>phone</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='phone'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/outlet.m4a'><span>outlet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/plant.m4a'><span>plant</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/phone.m4a'><span>phone</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/727/house.m4a'><span>house</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question 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