{"id":9421,"date":"2011-07-13T12:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/flipit_usb_charging_innovation_continues.html"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:34:42","slug":"flipit-usb-charging-innovation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/flipit-usb-charging-innovation-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"FlipIt! USB Charging Innovation Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/flipit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/flipit-thumb-256x299-9555.jpg\" alt=\"flipit.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had seen it all but today I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/gadgets\/travelpower\/e949\/?cpg=164I\">FlipIt USB Stealth Charger<\/a> which utilizes power outlets already in use. Specifically it has a thin contact pad which rotates 270 degrees allowing the user to plug it into an outlet which has another plug in it at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>It provides 1,000 mA or 1A of power at 5V which is double the amperage and power of a USB port and as a bonus can work with 100-240V<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/flipit-in-use.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/flipit-in-use-thumb-256x322-9557.jpg\" alt=\"flipit-in-use.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a> power outlets making it a great addition to your travel kit. I have a high-speed Targus iPad charger which puts out 2.1A or more than twice the output of the FlipIT! but I would surmise this &#8220;power leeching&#8221; device will charge an iPad to full charge overnight if needed. Especially if you turn the tablet off while being charged. <\/p>\n<p>Priced at $13.99, it&#8217;s not a steal but it is certainly not a bank breaker. I think it is a good value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had seen it all but today I came across the FlipIt USB Stealth Charger which utilizes power outlets already in use. Specifically it has a thin contact pad which rotates 270 degrees allowing the user to plug it into an outlet which has another plug in it at the same time. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,196,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}