Alternatives to the OpenBCI Galea for meditators who are looking for an EEG cap which is easy to use comfortable to wear?

Last Updated on July 31, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Do you have issues with the Greentek Gelfree EEG cap or sleep cap? Our issue with those devices is that we find hardly any user reports who uses these two caps, and show for instance brain data those.

Krisztián Hofstädters PhD. Thesis is about “Developing Brain Computer Music interfaces for Meditation»

And he used the Greentek Gelfree EEG cap. But can he convince us to buy the Greentek Gelfree cap? For practicing meditation on a daily basis, if we want a little bit more than a Muse headband with the Mind Monitor, a comfortable EEG device is required. What alternatives do we have to the Greentek Gelfree EEG cap?

The OpenBCI Galea has

conductive polymer active electrodes

which are advertised as the centerpiece of the world’s most comfortable dry EEG system:

https://galea.co/#home

and the Galea is 25 000 USD:

Is the Galea a suitable device for meditators to be used on a daily basis? If you think so, post it in the comments below.

After a first search about alternative devices which use conductive polymer active electrodes whe only found the g.SAHARA HYBRID by g.tec medical which uses ACTIVE HYBRID EEG ELECTRODES:

Ask g.tec medical about the difference between conductive polymer active electrodes and active hybrid EEG electrodes.