Nokia granted patent for haptic controlled steering wheel
I should have found this patent application from Nokia before but it’s neither too late now. This may be related to the thigns going on between Microsoft, Ford and Nokia and Nokia Maps, it may be not.
Nokia was granted an patent application filed at United States patent & Trademark office(U.S.P.T.O).
This patent explains that on the steering wheel, there are some sensors to be fitted in and those sensors may also be on the other device too, most probably on your Lumia.The sensors could give you some combination of vibration feedback that will let you know about the action being performed on your device or car. The good thing is that we can control all the basic actions that your device does like media controls, G.P.S, Calls, etc through touch and vibration feedback. The sensors can be piezoelectric or it could be microphones also (which hints about the actions can be performed by voice). Well the piezoelectric sensors raise the doubt more here as the feedback can be touch based also(as it’s not clear what types of piezoelectric sensors are to be used).May be the feedback could be touch, vibration and voice all three together.
The list of awesome controls that can be performed on your device and car:
1.Select next song or channel.
2.Fast forward/backward.
3.Volume up/down.
4.Mute/unmute.
5.Answer/end call.
6.Increase/decrease cooling/heating.
7.Activate navigation.
8.Turn on/off spoken feedback.
9.Switch on/off traffic announcements.
10.Show the current location through car/device’s GPS.
So all this brings our story to down here below:
Just made this post for the readers to provide a better explanation for the above post.
Source: USPTO
Regards:
Prashant.
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Nice patent. Wheel is somewhat essential in cars so any patent involving that and controlling media in your car is really valuable.
Hopefully Apple hasn’t patented the wheel yet.
Excellent!
Hope nokia is working with insurance companies with nokia drive so that those of us who follow speed limits can get a discount, a nokia in every car.
The essentials stated here are just basic if you are really a gadget freak then click on the source link and you will get really excited by reading that.
This would fit nicely with Ahtisaari’s talk about technology’s development and how he used the invetion of the steering wheel as a significant bettering of the “UI” of cars.
Would be great if we’d get a quote from him saying he planned to reinvent the steering wheel 
Good call. Ahtisaari is always every so subtly hinting at things Nokia is bringing in the future.
Same came into my mind.
BTW. Where are those augmented reality glasses from Nokia??
Already ripped off by Google
See the video playing in the big screen in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQyJAYRzsPo
And at about 2:18.
Vuzix has a licensing partnership with Nokia to make these glasses.
Well, not so much as to actually make the glasses.
But as to the transparent screens found in the glasses.
look here http://www.nimbuzz.com/en/jobs/jobs-list
they’re looking for a symbian developer. hoping nimbuzz will get better!!!