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Syn-R1 is a passive, drop-in electrode that makes reliable scalp contact through straight, curly, coily and afro-textured hair. No modification, no extended setup. Research edition available now; clinical edition in CE marking.
Standard cup and disc electrodes cannot reach the scalp through thick, curly or afro-textured hair. Participants are excluded, data is lost, and whole populations go unstudied. In one review, just five of eighty-one EEG papers included any Black participants, and none confirmed the data quality.
of EEG researchers hit this, and leading manufacturers, clinics and research groups agree it is a design problem, not a limit of the science.
say a hardware solution would directly help their work.
I am missing out on medical information simply due to my hair texture.
Clinical EEG patient, 4B hairThat is one line from a survey of EEG researchers, clinicians and patients. The rest say much the same thing: the hardware decides who gets recorded, and it has been deciding the same way for decades.
Every response is published in full.
Read all of them →One design flaw, three consequences.
Parting, braiding and extra gel, on every participant, to get a usable signal.
Bad contact means bad signal. Bad signal means sessions get thrown out, or participants get quietly excluded from the study altogether.
Funders are asking harder questions about who is in your sample.
A passive, drop-in replacement that reaches the scalp on the first attempt.
The tip reaches the scalp instead of resting on the hair, so there is no gap to bridge with gel.
Straight, wavy, curly, coily, afro-textured, and it holds up across braids and other protective styles.
An electrode validated across hair types is a checkable claim, not a statement of intent.
Three routes, depending on who you are.
Syn-R1 research edition, for research use only. Validate it on your own participants and equipment. Units ship from late 2026.
Early accessSame design, medical-grade materials. CE and UKCA marking in progress, FDA to follow. Register interest so we can plan clinical supply.
Clinical interestEmbed the patent-pending mechanism in your own product line, or bring Syn-R1 to your market as a distribution partner.
Partner with usRun a student society, or based somewhere standard pricing doesn't work? See our student partner program or our regional access program.
Syn-R1 is pre-certification. The status of each edition is below.
