Thomas Ruby was an Industrial Designer/Paticle Spectrologist from Captiva Island in Florida. He was born in 1941 and spent his early years collecting shells and other objects that washed up to the shore (mostly lighters and sandals). He went to Youngsworth college in Tampa for Particle physics and later got a Masters in Industrial Design at the famous Heller Group Institute in Rhode Island.
By the time that he graduated in 1967, he already held 14 patents. This caught a lot of attention and in 1968 he was able to start his own company. He called it "Rubyjock". His first invention caused a huge stir in his native Florida, the only state the device was approved in. It was called a TuneDrink. With all of the flavor synthesizers that we have now, it should go without explaining, but the TuneDrink worked by combining sound waves with certain molecules to produce alcoholic drinks.
