Who is responsible that affordable multi-sensor EEG devices are unvailable?

Last Updated on August 8, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Is it Texas Instruments?

As we asked in the EEVBLOG several years ago how to solve the “TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit is not save for humans” problem:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/how-to-solve-the-ti-ads1299-eeg-demo-kit-is-not-save-for-humans-problem/

Tremendous amount of posts where made there. Where these all Texas Instruments sellers? Then, the topic died. But soon after our question there, HackEEG32 and OpenBCI modules from Chinese sellers came onto the market.

Now, as we become interested again in affordable devices, the most interesting options are unavailable. Are the Texas Instruments sellers from the EEVBLOG responsible for this?

Whatever, we keep up with this topic, and will write sooner or later a comparison table of multi-sensor EEG devices as we have done it previously for ECG devices in our journal :

90.02 Research & medical grade ECG devices which some of those were used to study the accuracy of consumer grade HRMs in different papers

Because we think that the costs for multi-sensor EEG devices can be strongly reduced with these products which are currently unavailable.