Good thing they dropped the ball.

Play-Doh was invented to clean soot stains. Doctor Who was supposed to be an educational series of history lessons. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was Nirvana’s attempt to write a Pixies knockoff. But nobody wanted those things. And history was made.

As originally conceived, the Banana Boat Bluetooth Speaker was an underwhelming idea. What’s the justification for a floating Bluetooth speaker? What’s the point? Where’s the demand? Especially when, as our tests showed, it’s kinda not actually totally completely, y’know, waterproof?

Banana Boat tried to make a thing that nobody wanted. Fortunately for them, they failed.

Because what this is is a really good Bluetooth shower speaker. It’s water-resistant enough so that if it falls into the bath, no big whoop. It’s the perfect size: 6" in diameter, big enough to get louder than the shower, small and light enough to carry into and out of the bathroom or stow out of the way. And it runs for five hours on a charge. Now it’s something a lot of people want.

You can’t plan for these kinds of accidents. That’s why they’re accidents. But we’d encourage Banana Boat to come up with some more lame ideas. They’re 0 for 1 so far - which, by the rules of this game, means they’re batting 1.000.