Turtlebox Audio spent more than a decade turning a Buffalo Bayou garage project into one of America's fastest-growing private companies - by building a speaker loud and tough enough to outlast the water, the drops, and the duck blind.
Brane Audio spent nine years and 100-plus prototypes trying to break a century-old rule of acoustics. The result is a portable speaker that reviewers keep describing as impossible.
A University of San Diego grad and a few surf buddies built a floating, suction-cupped Bluetooth speaker for people who keep dropping electronics in the water. A decade later, the Barnacle is still stuck to the wall.