Poolside With a Paper Cup and Oyster - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Sight, sound and tatse are three of our five senses. They re also
the raison d ewtre of three very different Baton Rouge businesses.
SoundIf you spent any time by the pool or at the beach this summer
you might have encountered products made by Audio Bomb. The Baton
Rouge company makes portable, waterproof, inexpensive, audio
equipment. And it keeps coming out with ever cooler products in
ever ever cuter little packages. They re even diversifying into an
interesting sector tech loaded non electronics. designed for the
poolside niche market. Ned Pearson is the creator of these cool
acquatic products. Sight and SoundRenee Vidrine is President and
CEO at Lighthouse Louisiana, a social enterprise company that
creates opportunities for both the hearing and visually impaired
through education, social support, advocacy, and most
sognificantly, employment. Lighthouse puts its clients to work in
its paper cup maufacturing facility in Baton Rouge. This is not
some sort of feel god charity. Lighthouse s paper cups are a multi
million dollar business. The cups havea regional market for local
food outlets like Krispy Krunchy Chicken and supply the US
military. TasteTommy Waller is co founder of The Oyster Bed,
armatel cookware for grilling oysters that dispenses with having to
grill oysters in their shell so a bar b cuer can buy shucked
oyster, leaving the oyster house to return the hells to the ocean
for coastline restoration reef building. The Oyster Bed was
developed with assistance from Baton Rouge incubator Louisiana
Technology Center. Photos at Mansur s on the Boulevard by Ken
Stewart.

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