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In early 2008 RyLo Products, LLC launched the Revive Energy Mint Distributorship program to allow qualified individuals to get in on distribution of the product. Through vending machines and retail outlets these distributors are make a living selling the Revive mints. What is the Revive Product you ask? Revive Energy mints are what many people are calling a “supermint” energy and superfoods packed into a breath mint. Each mint packs the power of a cup of coffee along side the world’s most powerful antioxidants, the Acai Berry, The Goji Berry and The Mangosteen Fruit. Each mint has a smooth mint taste that is followed up by refreshing wellness and energy burst.

RyLo Products, LLC has hand picked distributors across the U.S. and Canada to promote the product and become distribution channels. These distributors receive 25 custom vending machines which they then set up vending routes in their territories. Along with the vending machines distributors are given retail rights and coaching to pursue and land retail accounts on a local and nation level. According to the president of RyLo Products, Logan Chierotti distributors are doing extremely well, “We are extremely happy with the success of our distributors, many of our distributors are utilizing trade show’s and other promotional events to really push the product.”

Revive distributorships are available throughout the united states, parts of Canada and according to Ryan Russo, COO they will be opening their doors to the United Kingdom and Australia in late 2009 early 2010.

For more information on Revive distribution opportunities visit http://www.easyvendingbusiness.com.

The updated version of the My Book World Edition's firmware.

(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET)

I reviewed Western Digital’s new My Book World Edition NAS server (the white light version) a while ago and complained about its sluggish Web interface, which contains confusing information suggesting that you would need to download software to make the MioNet remote-access solution work. The remote-access solution itself seemed useless.

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iSuppli did its thing to the new buttonless iPod Shuffle, tearing the device down an evaluating the price of its components. According to the company, the manufacturing price for the diminutive MP3 player is roughly $21.77, including the device itself, headphones, and package.

That comes out to about 28-percent of the player’s retail price.
As a point of comparison, the first generation iPod Touch cost about 49-percent of its retail price to build. The latest Nano cost about 40-percent of its retail price.

According to iSuppli, Samsung provided a good number of components for the Shuffle, including the flash memory and the primary application chip. According to Business Week, On Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments also got a part of the internal Shuffle action.

With SSD prices still well above the point of affordability, we’re thrilled to see more entrants joining the burgeoning market. Big players like Western Digital and Corsair are being greeted by small timers such as PhotoFast, Fusion-io and SandForce, the latter of which has just escaped “stealth mode” in order to launch its first solid state drive processor family. The chips utilize DuraClass technology and promise to address “key NAND flash issues allowing MLC flash technologies to be reliably used in broad based, mission critical storage environments.” More germane to our discussion is the nice boost in transfer rates and lower cost of production; we’re told that the SF-1000 crew sports a standard 3 gigabit-per-second SATA host interface connecting up to 512 gigabytes of commodity NAND flash memory, and that it delivers 30,000 IOPS and 250MB/s performance (sequential 128KB read or write transfers) with 100 micro-second latency. If all goes well, select OEMs will be launching SSDs based on this processor later this year, so we’ll definitely be keeping our eyes peeled.

[Via GadgetMix, thanks Kamal]

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Book Time, a page turning robot, is in practice a wonderfully useless piece of whimsy. The video shows the poor machine struggling to get a grip and flip a page. It’s funny when seen once or twice, but imagine using this and seeing the same hydraulic hesitation on every turn — the very definition of frustration.

This is sad. A look at a still photograph of the device shows the activation control — a tube into which you blow. Imagine being unable to turn pages by hand and using this instead. A boon, certainly, but the anxiety accompanying every blow, hoping that the robo-arms won’t jump their rails and just fold a page, would be excruciating. Plus, you need somebody with hands to load the thing every time you need to change books. Far better would be a voice operated e-book reader.

I can, of course, think of a better use for a hands-free page turning machine, but sadly these days the kind of magazine I would put in there are no longer to be found for free in roadside hedgerows. Everything, it seems, is now available on the internet.

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