Last Updated on August 1, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Since years, have the following devices from OpenBCI & devices with the ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments become better?
We have ECG devices for child’s based on OpenBCI:
We have the g.tec multi-purpose headset for 50 000 USD if your budget allows.
But do we only find new crazy devices developed by crazy people for crazy people? And this crazy community uses an outdated architecture?
On the other hand, Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
finds new and interesting papers such as:
All-in-One, Wireless, Multi-Sensor Integrated Athlete Health Monitor for Real-Time Continuous Detection of Dehydration and Physiological Stress
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202403238
which are NOT based on OPENBCI and the ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments.
Do developers at the university level (which Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org is as well for fun and in his spare time for less than 2 hours a day) have given up products based on OpenBCI and the ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments?
And new developments can only be found here?:
https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en
Since if these ADS1299 chip developments we reviewed in recent years would be of interest for developers at high school and universities, would then not companies like iWorx use those as well? But what is striking, that we know NOT of a single product based on the ADS1299 from iWorx. And we do not know of other sellers such as BIOPAC and Adinstruments which would use this chip.
And do products based on theADS1299 and EEG devices up to 50 000 USD violate competition laws in the US, EU, UK, China, Canada & Switzerland?
What is your opinion about these devices? Write it in the comments below.