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exocortex
1,126 gold contacts. One ordinary beanie.
$5,000. The first 100 ship in December 2027.
A beanie on the outside.
An ordinary acrylic rib-knit beanie goes over the shell, the boards and the hub. Its turned-up cuff holds every contact against the scalp. The five camera lenses come through it, where you and the people around you can see them.
No gel. No paste. No cap.
1,126 gold-plated pogo pins press through the hair onto the scalp, each with 2 mm of travel. Every tile is small enough that all of its pins reach. Put it on dry, take it off clean.
66 tiles. 9 designs.
Three rings of trapezoids follow the cuff, like the panels of a cap, and a top cut into territories closes it. Together they cover 71.7% of the scalp, and nearly every tile in a ring is the same board. Each one plugs into the next: 16 short chains to the hub.
Gain of 101. 500 times a second. Every channel.
A zero-drift TLV333 amplifier behind every contact, against the reference contact, and a CH32V203 converter for every ten. All 132 converters share one clock and one sync line, so 1,126 channels are sampled together, within 24 ns of each other. One 12-bit step is 8 µV at the contact, averaged down to 500 samples a second.
Sees what you see. Hears what you hear.
Five 2-megapixel cameras with 160° lenses, three across the front and two on the back rim. Each has its own microphone and its own Wi-Fi radio. Each camera board has a light that is on whenever its sensor has power; the next revision moves it to where others can see it. Recording people has rules: terms of use.
The hub.
At the back, under the pod: two RP2350s collect the chains, an ESP32-S3 handles Wi-Fi, and USB 2.0 High Speed carries everything to a computer. A 2000 mAh cell sits under the cover. It charges only off the head: plug in a cable and the contacts' supply switches off.
Take a closer look.
Stills of the live 3D model, rendered from the design files. Drag the shelf sideways.
By the numbers.
of spring on every contact, at most 70 g.
of timing difference across all 132 converters, by design.
USB 2.0 High Speed out of the hub.
at least, between every contact and the electronics: 22 µA if a part fails (design value; not yet tested).
through each camera's lens. Five of them.
circuit boards: 66 tiles of 9 designs, a hub and five cameras.
One pogo pin on every contact, one connector on every cable, one beanie. Fewer parts, fewer ways to fail.
exocortex
Pre-order. $250 deposit.
A fully refundable $250 deposit holds your place for a $5,000 exocortex. We expect to ship the first 100 by December 2027. If we can't, we'll email you before then with a new date. You can cancel then for a full refund, and if you don't agree to the new date, we refund you.
Or build it yourself.
Every board, every part, every file is open. Order the boards from JLC, print the shell on an Ender-3, and put it together. One order builds one helmet, with a spare pair of every tile design, for $2,085.
Tech specs.
- Sensing
- 1,126 dry gold contacts, one channel each, over 71.7% of the scalp
- Front end
- a TLV333 zero-drift amplifier per contact, gain 101 against the AC-coupled reference contact; 132 × CH32V203 12-bit converters, 500 samples per second per channel
- Cameras
- 5 × OV2640, 2 MP, 160° wide-angle
- Connectivity
- 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi from the hub; each camera streams over its own radio; USB-C, USB 2.0 High Speed (480 Mb/s) through an FTDI FT2232H
- Power
- 1S lithium-polymer, 2000 mAh, 3.7 V, under the pod cover; the cell will be one with its own protection circuit, tested to IEC 62133-2 and UN 38.3
exocortex is designed, routed and checked, and is not yet built. Specifications are design values; impedance, noise, motion, comfort and EMC have not been measured on a head. exocortex is not a medical device and is not for diagnosing, treating or monitoring any condition. Pre-orders take a fully refundable $250 deposit; the balance is charged only when your unit is ready to ship, and only if you agree then. This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. It is not, and may not be, sold or leased, or offered for sale or lease, until authorization is obtained. exocortex is made by Exocortex Labs and sold by CommandAGI Inc.