well, when bluetooth first came out, my collegues and i tried to think of all sorts of innovative applications that could be developed, and always always at the top of that list was "things that would happen when you moved into another bluetoother's personal space".
well here ya go, no application but what comes on the phone, and a community around it. austin powers would be proud. this puts the "grr in swinger, baby".
wired news on "toothing"
This report contains statistics about who is using bluetooth for this kind of social networking, including ratio of men to women, the device types and makers.
http://www.zero-sum.net/partners/gr/bluetooth-and-social-networking-april-2004.pdf
Posted by: researcher at April 27, 2004 09:52 AM