Microsoft's "mind reading" patent

Microsoft is applying for a patent to monitor user's brain waves in order to determine the effectiveness of user interfaces. Researcher Desney Tan from Microsoft is working on this project, and he was one of Technology Review's TR35 honorees.

This is the url at BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/15/microsofts-mind-read.html

Here's are a couple of articles I've written about Desney Tan's research:
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=629
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18962/