I make quick note of the announce­ment of Nokia’s new Haptikos tech­no­logy pre­viewed at the Red Fer­ret Journal. haptikos.gifThe tech­no­logy takes the touch screen that we all know (and love ;-)) and coordin­ates aud­ible and tact­ile feed­back that allows for sim­u­la­tion of screen keytaps. The com­par­ison with the iPhone’s mul­ti­t­ouch is obvi­ous, but one can­not but won­der how ges­tures could be vastly improved if you could actu­ally feel the pinch on screen. Ser­i­ously. This seems the dir­ec­tion that Nokia is work­ing and this pre­view explores a few of the little tech­nical details that have chal­lenged engin­eers thus far and still stand in the way of more soph­ist­ic­ated phys­ical inter­ac­tions with the screen. ‘Nuff said…this is an amaz­ing tech­no­logy tra­ject­ory. Nokia has very lim­ited cov­er­age at their ‘Way We Live Next’ website.