{"id":694012,"date":"2010-03-17T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003400"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:50:24","slug":"att-tries-to-save-world-with-new-zero-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694012","title":{"rendered":"AT&T Tries To Save World With New ZERO Charger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you didn’t know — though if you’re a Consumerist reader, you probably do — that cell phone charger you have plugged into your wall socket is pulling power even when you’re not charging your phone. AT&T figures that enough power is wasted in the U.S. alone to power 24,000 homes for a year. That’s why they’ve gone all eco-savvy on us and announced their new ZERO charger.<\/p>\n

The main selling point of the ZERO is that it doesn’t<\/i> do what other chargers do — it stops leeching power from the socket once you disconnect your phone. So it should save you a little money on your electric bill.<\/p>\n

AT&T is also pitching the product as a waste-reducing option. Instead of having a separate ZERO charger for each type of phone, the charger is really just a small block that can be attached to different phones with the use of interchangeable cables.<\/p>\n

The ZERO is slated to go on sale at AT&T stores in May.<\/p>\n

Is this something you’d be interested in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t know — though if you’re a Consumerist reader, you probably do — that cell phone charger you have plugged into your wall socket is pulling power even when you’re not charging your phone. AT&T figures that enough power is wasted in the U.S. alone to power 24,000 homes for a year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UxK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}