Nowadays most memory foam mattress toppers are more or less made with the same technology and the main difference is in the memory foam density which directly results in their pricing (higher density higher price and vice-versa). This monotony in the mattress market helped some creative companies to outshine the competition by implementing some small but really interesting innovations. In this case we’ll cover one of the most useful innovations which actually won our "sleep innovation award for 2007".

Many of you have already heard about the Sleep Aid brand and you probably know that they are one of the largest companies in memory foam mattress manufacturing. Interesting to note here is that until now their share from the memory foam topper market was quite limited and that’s mainly due to the higher than average market price of their toppers. Typical 5LB Seep Aid memory foam topper usually costs about $220 for full size 2" height and around $290 for the 3" which is a bit expensive compared to the Tempsoma Memory Foam Topper which comes around $160 for 3" full size and the Isotonic Memory Foam Topper with $140 for 3" full size topper. These pricing issues really got Sleep Aid to think for something really new feature that will help them improve their products by boosting their quality in order to be worth the little extra money you must spend on buying them...

Fortunately Sleep Aid was quick enough and came up with the something called "Memory Foam Heat Reduction Channel Technology" which is quite interesting feature. As you can see on the top left image, the new Heat Reduction Channel forms small triangle shaped cuts on the surface of the memory foam and thus helps with the ventilation and therefore reduces sweat. In traditional memory foam toppers the surface is straight without any cuts (if there are any cuts then the topper is most probably defective since Sleep Aid patented the HRC technology) and only the small pore structure of the memory foam helps with the ventilation. In the Sleep Aid Dream topper, this very simple innovation comes so handy during the hot summer nights (if you don’t use Air Conditioning as alternative) and can help you rest in much healthier condition if the room temperature is not hazy and you want to sleep with the windows open bringing in some fresh summer air.

Now you would be wondering if the Sleep Aid Dream Memory Foam Mattress Topper is cost effective solution for you next purchase, and that will be really good question. In one point of view the Sleep Aid Heat Reduction Channel does not create major improvement and for the $80 difference (about 36% more expensive than regular memory foam toppers), but if you are intending or just your weather conditions during the summer offer you the possibility for sleeping on open windows, this new technology would be just the thing you were looking for. As far as I know, sleeping on open windows is really healthy since air conditioned rooms can get you so sick and you can wake up with bad headache. Most probably that’s the main reason why Sleep Aid developed this new toppers and I do agree that this is great health benefit for the people that can afford to live healthy (I’m not one of those)

Anyway our statistics (based on q-a on friends and family) most of us sleep with the air conditioning unit off and the morning sweat is quite popular. Therefore the investment of $80 more in good quality HRC topper can save you a lot of morning smell and might happen to be really useful in our daily lives.