Ramses Alcaide

Co-Founder and CEO, Neurable · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ramses Alcaide leads Neurable in developing non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, translating EEG neural signals into everyday consumer wearable hardware like smart, focus-tracking headphones. His work originated from his doctoral research in electrical engineering and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, and he previously ran health technology projects at Pharo LLC.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ramses argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Neurable will launch a silent, thought-controlled device interface by 2025

“So, you know, it's not like a vision video of a hundred years from now. At least V-one is going to be available within the next two years.”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 25:25 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

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What they said9 Episodes1

Everything Ramses Alcaide said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2028

Brain-based wearables will replace and consolidate all other wearable devices

“One is that brain-based wearables are going to replace All the other wearables that you have. That's step one. And so all that data and all that value that we're seeing with existing wearables are going to be all consolidated into one device.”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 12:16 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Insight

Consumers will reject invasive implants like Neuralink unless medically necessary

“The way I would think of Neuralink is kind of like a hip replacement. You know, no one really wants a hip replacement until, you know, you actually need one. And even if they end up being 10 times better than your actual hips in the future, You probably want t…”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 21:32 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Neurable will launch a silent, thought-controlled device interface by 2025

“So, you know, it's not like a vision video of a hundred years from now. At least V-one is going to be available within the next two years.”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 25:25 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2028

Brain data detects Parkinson's 10 years earlier than Apple Watches

“For example, you can actually pick up Parkinson's responses using the Apple Watch. The issue is that by the time you pick it up at the hands or through walking metrics, your brain's already been dealing with it for the past 10 years. And so with the brain, you…”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 11:58 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Assertion Contradicted

Harvard study shows BCI-timed breaks boost productivity by 4 hours

“Yeah, so we did a large study with a professor from Harvard, who's now a professor at Worcester Political, Technical Institute, and he had created this incredible method for identifying the individual's focus, and so what we were able to do, and we did close t…”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 17:42 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Assertion Contradicted

Neurable headphones let users control music playback using brain activity

“So we have the ability to, for example, use brain activity to do Very minimal controls on the hardware as well too. So changing music tracks, play and pausing music.”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 13:46 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Assertion Partly supported

Machine learning cuts EEG response times from minutes to 60 seconds

“And so the work that I did was essentially machine learning classification so that we could interpret their brain activity at a much higher level of accuracy. And what that enabled us to do is reduce The response time from one to five minutes to anywhere betwe…”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 4:47 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Disclosure

Neurable will partner with OEMs to launch neural headphones and helmets

“We work with different companies OEMs, some of, you know, the largest in the world are some of the ones that we're working with, and we help them release Neurable powered products. The first one is going to be a pair of headphones. Eventually it's going to be …”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 29:00 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Alcaide founded Neurable after his uncle lost both legs in an accident

“Really, the idea of Nurbel, and kind of the concept of what I've dedicated my life to started when I was about eight years old. My uncle got into a trucking accident in Mexico, and he, you know, he lost both his legs, and it was really intense time for the fam…”

Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 1:51 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable	Aug 31, 2023	21m

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