Something to sink your teeth into?

 By Seana Mulcahy
Greetings from the world of now-I've-heard-everything. I don't think I'm the last to know, but I sure might be. I was just made aware of a new cyber-dating trend called "toothing." Apparently it began as a hoax by a British Internet journalist a couple of years ago. Ste Curran, then editor at large at the magazine Edge and ex-journalist Simon Byron created an online forum for folks with Bluetooth-enabled devices that wanted to find a date, a partner or other types of "encounters."
According to Wikipedia, in toothing a Bluetooth device is used to "discover" other enabled devices within about 30 feet (10 meters), then send the expression toothing? as an initial greeting.
There are bars in Japan where men and women program their likes, dislikes, what they want in a mate, etc. into a device. They then drink, dance, hang out with their friends as they normally would. However, when someone who matches their profile is within short range, an indicator will flash. I guess this has been successful for a few years now. It makes sense, as the culture in Japan is very different. Men don't typically walk up to women in bars and ask them out there.  Read the whole article