Angel Electronics
Innovative product is a dream come true
Everything happens for a reason, or so the saying goes. But sometimes it helps if the person making things happen is an innovative and gifted electronics engineer. David Clark, of Angel Electronics, has an excellent track record in
the development of ground-breaking products. He was the driving force behind Road Angel, one of the fi rst companies to roll out GPS Speed Camera Locators and also the fi rst company to launch a connected sat nav system when the technology was in its early days at the beginning of the 21st Century. T is time, David’s inventive mind began looking for answers when his
wife, who had been suff ering from night-time migraines, found moving both of the couple’s mobile phones well away from the bed helped relieve her symptoms. Working to fi nd a solution that improved his wife’s health, while at the same time enabling the phones to be on the bedside table, led David to create Sleep Halo™, a simple yet eff ective product that was launched in February at Angel Electronics’ Silverstone Technology Park headquarters.
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David Clark Angel Electronics
Sleep Halo™ is an inductive loop wireless phone
charger that incorporates electromagnetic field shielding. Its innovative and stylish design means that your mobile phone continues to operate normally, but the associated radiation is defl ected away from the bed. David said: “Every business idea I’ve had has
been prompted by a need for something in my life. Back in the day, I borrowed a radar detector from a friend and realised how unreliable it was. On the back of that, I developed Road Angel, which was the fi rst GPS Speed Camera Warning Device that included accident blackspots. It was fully developed and brought to market within 12 months and dominated the growing auto accessory market. “So, when my wife found relief from her
headaches by moving her phone away from the bed, that was great news. But like most people, we like to have our phones close to us – they are our alarm clocks, we want to answer quickly if there’s an emergency in the middle of the night, we want to check them fi rst thing in the morning, etc – so I set about working on what we could do.” Having bought materials and testing equipment,
David set to work. T e next step in the process was to complement his electronics engineer expertise by bringing back together four of the Road Angel team from 15 years ago. Now, working with Managing Director Elaine Harries, Technical Director Stuart Bowden-Rooke, and design and manufacturing specialists Terry Caven and Mark Newell, David
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