I was glad to be invited to Finland, where mobile giant Nokia gave some hints about “the way we will live next”. They introduced their visions for 2015 and allowed to test some upcoming cool services, fresh from the labs.

An idea Nokia researchers are exited about is what they call “sensing and aggregating data” to have “a world of highly tailored and proactive information”.

Bob Iannucci, Head of Nokia Research Center predicts that in about seven years time the world is full of sensors. For each mobile phone, there’ll be 10 wirelessly connected private sensors – one in your car, one in your clothes, one in your house etc – all “bridged” with your mobile phone. The sensors cost pennies, because the technology already exists.

So then what?

Then, as Iannucci explains, Nokia is able to take your location data and aggregate it with your diary, your calendar and your user history – what you phone has learned from your behavior.

Imagine sitting in a meeting, having subscribed to traffic feed. Your phone recognises that the route you are about to take is congested and “says” to you: “I see that you got to be on Mark’s birthday at 15. But the route that you usually take is congested, so you better leave early! And how would you like me to plan another route?”

Or another example: disease control. Iannucci says that the granularity of US disease control system, for example, is so poor, that it is even hard to say how many people are infected in particular county. So why can’t our phones be able to recognise our health conditions or body temperature?

Our Nokias could also be our personal “weather sensors”. Iannucci talks about thousands of existing weather sensors located in places like mountain tops and airports, where no one really lives. How about using our phones and their wireless data delivery capabilities to sense weather and with the help of hundreds of millions of weather sensors like that provide climate data, with maxiumum possible accuracy.

Here’s an overview of some of the new services Nokia is “baking”:

• 3D in mobile devices. User experience as intense as live! 3D enables immersive and emotionally rich communication. Implementation of emerging MVC (multi-view video coding) standard on a portable device with real-time 3D video, stereo 3D content from free-hand photos and stereoscopic movie content will be shown. This thing caused me a headache!

• Gaze Tracker. Wearable near-to-eye display with integrated eye gaze tracker for mobile hands-free experience with full interaction capabilities. Besides conventional pointing, tracking the user gaze point on a virtual image or even in the real world enables disruptive and intuitive applications possible with no other input device.

• Indoor Positioning. Provides a positioning and location-based service inside a building. Users can add new buildings and can contribute measurement data and context information. Indoor maps are enhanced by user-created Point-of-Interests. The indoor positioning platform respects privacy. There’s a demo project going on in Helsingi Kamppi Center.

• Local Interaction takes social-networking and location-based services indoors: find your friends based on indoor positioning, browse nearby places on indoor maps, add media and comments to indoor places. All of this is easy to access on your web-enabled phone.

• Friend View is a pleasant location-based social environment that helps users feel closer to friends, by creating awareness of their moods and activities, and enabling them to keep in touch. It uses location sharing enabled by the user. A micro-blogging approach is used to fill in the little moments of the day.

• Point & Find enables people on the move to access information and services on the internet, simply by pointing a camera phone at real-world objects. In the first beta version of Point & Find to be released in the near future in US and UK, users can instantly watch the film trailer, read the review, or find the closest cinema to buy tickets, simply by pointing a camera phone at a poster for a new movie.

• Storm Detection. An application that enhances the ordinary human senses and alerts the user to severe weather risks which he would not normally detect. Gives the user more time to react to the risk, and also creates a unique way to experience dramatic weather events. Good for tropical countries.

• The Morph concept device, launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre in United Kingdom. The nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.

• ShakerRacer. RC car controlled with a mobile device with the acceleration sensor. You can drive a remote controlled car over Bluetooth by tilting the phone.

• Nokia Carbon Calculator. Automatically detects the mode of transport or method of travel and calculates travel-related CO2 emissions. Nokia Carbon Calculator offers an easy way to consumers to monitor their CO2 emissions and motivates them to reduce their carbon footprint.

• In Voice Assisted Text Input. Voice input being seamlessly integrated into normal text input. So, voice is not the main method for composing a message but an enhancement for traditional text input.