According to the second “Miscellaneous” image on the APC site, this item does have the typical North American grounding pin, but it does not appear to be made of an electricity-conductive material. I’d consider this if I did a fair bit of world travel with just a cell phone or PDA, but I wouldn’t use this with a notebook/tablet/anything else that needs to be grounded.

This looks pretty neat, however, my laptop AC adapter has a grounded plug. I looked at several different views from various angles on the APC web site. It was tough to tell, but it didn’t look like this thing accepts grounded plugs.