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The Obihai OBi100 phone adapter works with Google Voice to give you free calling for life.

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Yesterday I wrote about the Ooma Telo phone system, which for $109.99 allowed you to ditch your landline and make nearly free phone calls for life. (Your only obligation: a few bucks’ worth of monthly taxes and fees.) Alas, it sold out quickly.

More than a few commenters suggested an alternative: the Obihai OBi100, which can pair with Google Voice (among other services) for totally free calls. and talk about a cosmic coincidence: today the sucker’s on sale.

Specifically, Amazon has the Obihai OBi100 VoIP phone adapter for $39.99 shipped. That’s $20 off the regular price and about $10 less than you’ll find it anywhere else.

I’m not intimately familiar with this device, but it appears to work much like an Ooma or MagicJack plus. You plug your existing cordless phone system into the the OBi100, plug the OBi100 into your router, and presto: you’ve got dial tone.

Actually, there’s a bit more to the setup than that, at least with this device, as you have to configure it for use with your Google Voice account (or another service, like Sipgate). But once that’s done, you should be looking at totally free local and long-distance calling forever.

Update:At the moment, Google Voice will be offering free calling only through the end of 2012. It’s unknown whether Google will extend that. however, the OBi100 works with a variety of services, including Sipgate One, which is indeed free for life. so even if Google starts charging for phone service, you should be able to find a freebie alternative. Will there be hassles involved in switching? perhaps, but sometimes that’s just part of the cheapskate lifestyle!

OBi calling features include caller ID, call forwarding, anonymous caller blocking, three-way conference calls, and voice mail. however, I didn’t see any mention of a blacklist feature, which I’ve found invaluable on my Ooma for blocking telemarketers and other unwanted callers.

Also, be prepared to give up your current phone number, as Google Voice doesn’t currently allow number porting from landlines. (Someone smarter than me may know a workaround to this; let’s hear about it in the comments.) one other important caveat: the OBi doesn’t do 911, period. (The device actually has “no emergency calls” pasted across it in big letters.)

Those couple gripes notwithstanding, this is one of the cheapest ways to keep landline-style phone service in your home — perhaps the cheapest. and the OBi100 is remarkably popular on Amazon, with an average 4.8-star rating from nearly 300 buyers. for 40 bucks out the door, it’s awfully compelling.

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Memory foam has been about since it was invented in 1966, but it has only been by and large accessible for about twenty years, although twenty years ago hardly anyone could afford it.

One of the early applications for memory foam was for mattresses for the bed-ridden. This is because memory foam mattresses help reduce pressure on the skin touching the bed, which reduces the likelihood of bed sores and gangrene.

In those early days such mattresses were prohibitively costly so just hospitals and the wealthy could afford them. however, the price of memory foam mattresses has dropped sharply over recent years and now they can even be bought on Amazon and.

Initially this special foam was developed by one of NASA’s spin-off research businesses, so it is a product of the space program. At the time, scientists were trying to find a safer material for use in cushions and pillows for the aeronautical industry.

They came across this foam, but NASA allowed the right to manufacture it, the patent, to slip into the public domain.

A Swedish company took up the challenge and made orthopaedic mattresses with it because of its capacity to moulding itself to a body’s individual shape due to that body’s heat and weight, thus supporting the body at more points than a traditional mattress. It is this extra support that reduces pressure on the skin and so reduces the likelihood of bed sores.

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This can be a good or a bad thing according to the background temperature, but regular foam is always warm.

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This allows you much more control over the temperature of the mattress by controlling the temperature of the room.

There are two types of memory foam high density and low density. one reacts to heat and the other to pressure (or in this situation, body weight). Most memory foam mattresses are made up of a combination of these two types of foam so that the top layer reacts to the heat of your body and moulds itself around you, while lower layers react to your weight in the same way, depending on how heavy you are.

The lower layers will allow the passage of cool air and this will be transferred to the upper layer, keeping your body cool. one point to make on this issue is that because memory foam mattresses react to heat, if you live in a hot country, the foam will become fairly flaccid because of the background heat. Therefore, if you live in a hot country, the mattress will need to be that much thicker to permit more air to circulate.

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They go for $6-7 on Amazon with free shipping, brand new, in packaging – some even offer an SDHC card reader.

You'd be good for $5-7 – locally sold could fetch higher prices ($10) because the buyer doesn't have to wait for shipping.

5-7$ is good price.

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My mom said she'd get me one which one is the best thanx!!!

I looove the third one! Plaid is always awesome…Er, almost always.

First one is the best in my opinion. It's a more girly case.

I can't find them at Walmart. I need the headphone thingy in particular

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I am a girl. Do you love it, like it, or hate it??? Opinions!!

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Need to know where I can buy an international sim card that I can use in Egypt. I am currently on Orange with my u.k phone.

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