About uloop

Hi, my name is Isla McLean, the inventor of the ULoop.

Like many inventors I am not an expert in design, engineering or manufacturing, just someone who had a good idea and the drive to take it forward.

From a young age I’ve always had a passion for travel and to understand different countries and their cultures. A family holiday to South Africa when I was eight, gave me my first real experience of another country. This started my desire to see more of the world, so as soon as I left school at 18 I took my gap year to the Far East and Australia. Since then I’ve spent time in Alaska with the University Officers Training Corps; India, where I completed a postgraduate development course; skiing in Finland and Austria and holidaying in Europe. My most recent adventure was September 2008, where I completed a charity trek along the Great Wall of China for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

During all of these trips I have found myself sleeping on public transport and at airports, I’ve shared communal rooms in hostels and camped on beaches and islands. Every time I’ve done this, I've had the same dilemma: I wanted to sleep but feared my luggage being stolen or sleeping through my stop.

Nowadays, I also travel with expensive equipment like my laptop, camera, blackberry etc which only increases this fear. I wanted a product to solve this and when I couldn’t find what I was after on the market, I invented it.

To date I’ve had help from a number of people and without them uloop simply wouldn’t have happened, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank:

John Hughes, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce
Geoff and Jimmy, Fearsomengine
James and Anna, Miicro
Peter Bawden, Bawden and Associates