Last Updated on January 18, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We feel very similar to Coadi Wrall MD who threw his neurofeedback device in the trash:
These devices should be helpful for practicing meditation and not make us suffer. As physiologists who meditate, we did not yet find a device which is convincing to us personally, and does not make us suffer. We suffer the most from not to be able to access the sensor data of these devices in an easy way.
We miss open source software and hardware devices, papers about those, and examples. We do not know if or when they will come. The community who uses those is small.We could build a scientific laboratory at home, but we have almost become equipment manufacturers ourselves, and the expensive laboratory devices are not worth to buy for us personally, and also an overkill for our application.
We could validate devices presented here for our application, but we do not want to validate all sensors presented here, and do not want to continue to review every new device which is available, especially if they don’t have the Swiss quality standard.
We will go back to the most important physiological parameters, with the best low-cost high quality physiological sensors which are available for this purpose. And if we find something new, we won t write a paper and publish it on our WordPress site, but elsewhere. But this could be a lifetime journey.