Existing solutions, including pin-based and braided-anchor electrodes, are real progress, but none reach the full target: reliable scalp contact, wet-electrode impedance, no hair modification, and minimal setup, for every hair type. Synaptive is built to meet all of it.
The electrode sits in a standard cap position and connects to your existing amplifier. What changes is how it makes contact: a compliant mechanism that parts and reaches through dense, curly and coily hair to meet the scalp, without gel-heavy preparation or braiding.
The design is novel enough that we have protected it. Our patent application has been filed under number 2615593.7.
Others meet one or two of these. The target that matters is all of them at once, for every hair type.
Reliable scalp contact across straight, wavy, curly, coily and afro-textured hair, with no preparation or modification.
Signal quality at impedance levels equivalent to current clinical-grade wet electrode systems.
No extended preparation, no additional gel protocol, and no specialist knowledge required for diverse hair types.
Built to the requirements of academic research, clinical EEG and consumer BCI applications.
It shares the familiar form factor of the cup and disc electrodes you use today and connects straight to your existing amplifier over a standard connector. There is no new protocol to learn and no workflow to change, so adopting it is a swap, not a project.
The electrodes are reusable and research-grade, and they work for every participant, so you stop planning your studies around who the hardware can record from.
Electrode 1 is available to early adopters now. Two further designs are in research and development, and all of them are built to feed a shared, patent-protected AI denoising layer.
Our flagship design and the subject of the current patent filing. A passive, drop-in electrode that reaches the scalp across every hair type.
The next-generation design, in active development, pushing contact reliability and setup time further across the full range of hair types.
A future design on our roadmap that extends the platform toward new applications and form factors, holding to the same inclusive standard.
Every Synaptive electrode is designed to feed a shared AI denoising layer that cleans the recorded signal in software, improving quality across all hair types without changing your workflow. It is covered by our patent, and as the models improve, every electrode improves with them.
| Connector | 1.5 mm DIN touchproof (DIN42802) |
|---|---|
| Amplifier compatibility | BrainProducts, g.tec, BioSemi, ANT Neuro and other standard 1.5 mm DIN systems |
| Hair types | Straight, wavy, curly, coily and afro-textured |
| Signal path | Conducted directly to your amplifier, no onboard electronics |
| Construction | Reusable, research-grade |
| Intellectual property | Patent application filed, number 2615593.7 |
| Regulatory status | Class I CE marking in progress. Not yet a certified medical device. |