— Today we high­light a fas­ci­nat­ing patent by IBM that lever­ages brain mon­i­tor­ing (includ­ing EEG feed­back) to sup­press dis­tract­ing notifications–hopefully such a sys­tem will become avail­able soon! (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 8,055,722: Noti­fi­ca­tion con­trol through brain mon­i­tor­ing of end user concentration Assignee(s): Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Machines Inventor(s):…