{"id":595,"date":"2009-12-07T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2009-12-12T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T21:31:43","slug":"power-outlet-with-usb-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2009\/power-outlet-with-usb-charger\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Power from the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.fastmac.com\/product_info.php?products_id=458\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"596\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2009\/power-outlet-with-usb-charger\/image\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?fit=240%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?fit=240%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-596\" title=\"TruePower UCS Power Outlet\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?resize=240%2C320\" alt=\"image\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/fastmac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fastmac<\/a> i found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notcot.org\" target=\"_blank\">Notcot<\/a>&#8211; the TruePower UCS Power Outlet. It is a USB charger that is integrated into a wall outlet. Pretty cool idea but in <em>my<\/em> world I am never close enough to the wall outlet for this to be convenient. I prefer this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Outlets-To-Go-Power-Strip\/dp\/B0018MEBNG\/ref=pd_cp_e_2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2009\/power-outlet-with-usb-charger\/0005064449753_500x500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Monster Outlets To Go at Amazon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-597\" title=\"Monster Outlets To Go at Amazon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Monster Outlets To Go at Amazon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0005064449753_500X500.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good idea from Fastmac i found on Notcot&#8211; the TruePower UCS Power Outlet. It is a USB charger that is integrated into a wall outlet. Pretty cool idea but in my world I am never close enough to the wall outlet for this to be convenient. I prefer this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[48],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yDEm-9B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}