Most outdoor speakers look like they were built for a toolbox. We wanted one you'd leave out when you got home.
Outdoor speakers are built to survive, and they look it. Black rubber, hard corners, a carabiner on the side. They do the job, then they go back in a cupboard, because nobody wants to look at them.
Mango starts from the other end. A warm, tactile object that happens to sound very good and shrug off the pool. Something that doesn't ask you to choose between the kitchen shelf and the edge of the water.
The cues come from ripe fruit: a flattened roundness, a woven skin, a glow that seems to come from inside. It isn't shaped like a fruit, though. No leaf, no stalk, nothing stuck on for the joke. Just an object you're glad to see on the table, at the beach, on the balcony, in the kitchen.
Built for salt and sun. Good enough for the shelf.
Kitchen and table first, then the terrace, the beach, the pool, the picnic.Every object is a stack of trade-offs. These are the ones that made Mango what it is.
The first Mango was 12 cm across, and the sums said it would sink. So the whole body grew by a fifth. Volume grows faster than weight when you do that, and now Mango floats with about a quarter of it above the surface.
The extra room went straight to the sound: about 800 cm³ inside instead of 460, shared between the battery and the bass. It still fits in one hand.
Sealed to IP67, and light enough to ride the surface.
The woven skin is what you touch and see first, so it carries the quality. It wraps the whole body, and the colour is dyed through rather than printed on.
A speaker has to move air, and IP67 means sealing it shut. A passive radiator does the breathing a port would normally do, so the shell can stay closed and the bass stays round.
The top is one translucent membrane. At rest it's smooth and quiet; bring a hand close and it lights from inside. At the base, a halo sets Mango on a cushion of light. The light is a material here, not a gadget.
Each colour has its own fabric and its own halo, so the light matches the skin.
Amber, the original
Cream, warm white halo
Turquoise, ocean halo
Pre-order now at 129 €, and nothing is charged until your Mango ships.
