Last Updated on January 16, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
For the last view years, we reviewed low-cost high quality EEG, ECG, EMG devices in our journal. We recently found, that all major component of OpenBCI are also sold by Alexpress seller. Many of them don’t invest much in marketing, as for instance Unicorn Black does.
Many Aliexpress seller don t do a lot of marketing:
- Is this because they don’t have the time to do so?
- Is this, because they don t have the money to do so?
According to pictures we have seen in shops of Aliexpress sellers, we ask ourselves. Do these sellers make these picture for marketing? By some of them we don t think so, as for instance in the example of the Ultracortex Mark compatible Headset: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000389347282.html Who makes pictures with research on animals to sell products? Animal research is not very popular and controversial. Do these seller post these pictures to show, that their cap can also be used for their application which uses animal research? The pictures look, as if they work on a very serious research project. This could be for pharmaceutical research for regulatory affairs do develop new drugs. This makes those interesting for other research project.
Sometimes products for which a lot of marketing is done, rise expectations which are not fulfilled later on. These simple products on Aliexpress show pictures of real life scenarios which are interesting, and are nowhere discussed. The products wich are sold by https://openbci.com can be used for research project. But we can find most of the products OpenBCI sells also from other sellers, which partly offer better products, as in the example of open source ECG and PPG sensors (for instance at DFROBOT), affordable OpenBCI modules in Aliexpress shops, or Mark III compatible EEG caps demonstrated by researchers during animal research with those.