[From the ‘Learn more about us!’ page of the Skylarker website]
When it was first founded in 1981 by Edwin Twick II, an entrepreneurial ham radio enthusiast in his late thirties, Skylarker Inc. – far from being the globe-spanning leader in applied neuroacoustic research that it is today – was simply a family-run enterprise specialising in the design and manufacture of a range of baby monitors! Can you believe it? Yes! It is true!
In its early years, the company performed exceptionally as our monitors flew rapidly from shelves, quickly becoming the second-largest supplier in the United Kingdom. Who knows – maybe you yourself were once watched over by one of our sturdy, user-friendly products! The boom afforded Edwin and his family a fine living, but it was the summer of 1983 that would become a landmark in the history of Skylarker Inc, for shortly after the launch of the long-range Easecomm™ product line, letters began to arrive – a trickle at first, but later numbering in the thousands – at the factory doorstep. Each and every one from delighted parents around the world! The first one is framed and hangs proudly in our boardroom to this very day in order to spur us on our ongoing way toward excellence moving forward into the future proactively. Read for yourself a short extract:
“Dear Mr. Twick, I feel I really must write to thank you personally for your wonderous invention! I refer of course to the ‘Easecomm™’ baby monitor which myself and my husband have recently purchased. Our young son Vinnie has always been such trouble to us – constantly moving around, trying to talk and make marks on paper and so on, yet we have found that when he’s placed in a room with your miracle device and its low, barely audible hum, this infuriating behaviour ceases immediately! It is replaced by a look of placid calm and little more than a soft gurgle as he happily stares at his colourful mobile for hour after blissful hour…”
After much vigorous research by Edwin and his team, it was discovered that – as well as as providing the quality assurance and peace of mind that Skylarker Inc. is famous for – the Easecomm™ units emitted a powerful, oscillating sine wave that acts beneficently on certain centres of white matter deep in the infant brain. Such an important breakthrough did not go unnoticed by the scientific community, and with the sponsorship and funding of several interested parties, the testing was expanded upon to include groups of all ages and select social backgrounds. The results of those groundbreaking studies showed – with minute adjustments to the waveform – markedly reduced levels of wilfulness, combative behaviour, and emotional variance, as well as a significantly heightened enjoyment of simple, repetitive tasks in the vast majority of test subjects.
Fast-forward to twenty years later and the benefits of that research are everywhere! You can see our emitters standing sentinel in any number of locations across the globe: in prisons, third-world factories, unemployment offices, even some of the lowest performing state schools! We are also pleased to announce our entry into partnership with several mainland UK councils, so when cheerfully leaving a high street chain pub with your friends or work colleagues in the early hours, the chances are you may soon feel Skylarker Inc.’s unobtrusive technology keeping you safe from yourself!
And yes, we still make baby monitors!
Ruth Loveless, Head of PR – Skylarker Inc.
In memory
Edwin Twick
1943 – 2002
Adequate Brown 