The art of predicting customer behaviour
In August 2007, software giant Microsoft filed a patent application for a system that would allow it to access thoughts. The patent describes pattern-recognition techniques that can be applied to electroencephalograph (EEG) signals – a measure of electrical activity in the brain – to determine what cognitive state the subject is in.[...]
For one thing, its presence in the computer games market opens up intriguing possibilities: it could use brainwaves as a control mechanism.
There are other possibilities too. Microsoft has an avowed commitment to taking on search engine giant Google in the lucrative online advertising market. Now that is one area where a little mind reading could go a very long way.
Microsoft's mind reading patent | Information Age
via: The Debris Field: Microsoft's mind reading patentrelated: United States Patent Application: 0070185697
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