Nokia focuses on the future

from the IV MB, by cellodude:

>>Nokia focuses on the future

[If Korkman's job [at Nokia] is to identify the yet-to-be-fulfilled wants and needs of users, then Henry Tirri's is finding the technological solutions that can realise these ambitions. Tirri is head of Nokia's Research Centre, and is breathlessly enthusiastic about the potential of mobile devices.

He's particularly excited about haptic interfaces, which provide physical "feedback" to users. "It's partly about fooling your senses," he says. Nokia is working on new forms of haptic technology that can help to provide an augmented sense of reality. "There's a lot of gesture-recognition, a lot of pressure sensing."]