Toothing
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Toothing is a media hoax which claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange sexual encounters.
It appears that toothing started around March 2004, in the form of a fake forum designed by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at games magazine Edge. On April 4, 2005, the creator of the forum admitted that the whole thing was a hoax (http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=53).
Toothing was described as the possibility to leverage the ability of a Bluetooth device to 'discover' other enabled devices within a radius of around 30 feet (10 meters). Having discovered another device, the expression toothing? would normally be sent as an initial greeting.
See also
External links
- Toothing Blog (http://toothing.blogspot.com/)
- Toothing and bluedating information (http://www.bluedating.info/toothing.htm)
- Toothing advice and FAQ (http://www.toothing-central.com)
- Toothing Community (http://www.2thing.net)
- Toothing and dating in France (http://www.bluedating.fr/)
- Toothing in Italy (http://www.togatoga.it/toothing/)
- Toothing in Italy (http://www.bluetoothing.it)
- The first German Toothing Community (http://de.geocities.com/toothing_deutschland/toothing_index.html)
- Toothing in Germany (http://toothing_deutschland.2thing.net)
- Bluetoothing news and links (http://www.bluetoothing.info)
- Toothing software (http://www.bluejackingsoftware.com)
- Reuters article on toothing (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4859042§ion=news)
- What Ever Happened to Toothing? (http://www.hanasiana.com/archives/000323.html)