Patent ID: 7477153

Claim:
A system, comprising: a seating platform; a communications system embedded within said seating platform for receiving an information carrying communication from a remote system; and a haptic system embedded in said seating platform for communicating information carried by said information carrying communication to an occupant of said seating platform, wherein said communications system comprises a wireless communications system, wherein said seating platform is mobile, wherein said haptic system comprises a plurality of vibrators disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to said occupant of said seating platform, wherein said haptic system comprises a plurality of deformable surfaces disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to said occupant of said seating platform, wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of vibrators communicates information to said occupant, wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of deformable surfaces communicates information to said occupant, and wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of vibrators and said plurality of deformable surfaces communicates information to said occupant.