IF YOU FAILED TO STOCK UP ON INCANDESCENT BULBS, you can still take advantage of this.

Also, today only: Panasonic DECT 6.0 PLUS Link-to-Cell via Bluetooth Cordless Phone, $54.99. I’ve got an earlier model — no bluetooth-to-cell connection — and it’s quite good.

UPDATE: Will Collier writes:

That Panasonic phone you’re linking today is very nice, and makes it easy to cut the landline cord. We have ours Bluetooth-linked to an old cell phone that we ported our old home number to, saving us a good $20/month on AT&T’s ridiculous landline charges. Works just like a “regular” phone line, and you can buy additional phones to put around the house if two aren’t enough. My only complaint is that the built-in answering machine doesn’t work for “cell-only” mode.

Interesting. And reader Colin Frazier writes:

Anyone who
1. has dropped home phone service in favor of using a mobile phone AND
2. has a larger-than-two-room home AND
3. has pants without pockets (that is, someone who is a woman :-)

will love the Link-to-Cell functionality. I got one for my parents. They use it with no land line and two cell phones. They drop their cell phones by the Panasonic base station when they walk in the house and they connect automatically. Inbound calls ring all their cordless ones. Likewise, they can make calls out through their cell phones from any cordless set. You can even easily transition to or from the cell phone to take a call on the road or to finish one at home.

That’s cool.