Last Updated on July 8, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Since years Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
is reviewing low-cost high-quality devices.
- Basically the only really new devices where those from mBrainTrain with up to 64 channels.
- we found devices with 32 channels developed in Indonesia with daisy chain algorithms.
- we found new boards on Aliexpress with up to 32 channels starting from 700. They went up to 4000 USD. and they came back to $440.85, but are unavailable now:
- We found HackEEG which is gone now
- We found the Beats device with 32 channels in which we do not trust
- PiEEG came onto the market, a device which hardly anyone uses
- It seems that reviewing only causes that sellers try to maximize provit of old architectures.
- Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org optimizes for low-cost high-quality. And in recent years he never really found something new.
- Smartwatches can be used by meditators. But no one could convince us that they are accurate enough for scientific and medical purposes:
EEG devices up to 50 000 seem to be strongly controlled. And we ask ourselves if there is a violation of competition laws?
The community of EEG devices which is the most alive is the www.openbci.com forum. But there seems to be only rarely something new as for instance the Microsoft flight simulator:
That is why we doubt we will use a device with more than 16 channels as for instance this one: