Bluedating
Encyclopedia
Wireless dating, Widating or Bluedating (from Bluetooth
) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone
and Bluetooth
technologies. Subscribers to the service enter details about themselves and about their ideal partner, as they would for other on-line dating services. When their mobile phone comes in the vicinity of that of another subscriber (a radius of about 10 meters) the phones exchange details of the two people. If there is a match, then both users are alerted and can seek each other out and directly chat
using Bluetooth (bluechat
). Settings can include an option which restricts alerts to subscribers who have a friend in common.
A group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich
) have developed a dating application called Bluedating running on mobile phones with Bluetooth. There is also an implementation of wireless dating called Serendipity being pioneered by MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. (Reported in New Scientist Magazine 20 March 2004.).
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
and Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
technologies. Subscribers to the service enter details about themselves and about their ideal partner, as they would for other on-line dating services. When their mobile phone comes in the vicinity of that of another subscriber (a radius of about 10 meters) the phones exchange details of the two people. If there is a match, then both users are alerted and can seek each other out and directly chat
Online chat
Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, that offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver, hence the delay for visual access to the sent message shall not hamper the flow of communications in any of the directions...
using Bluetooth (bluechat
Bluechat
Bluechat is a direct text chat between two or more users, where every participant uses a bluetooth device and names it...
). Settings can include an option which restricts alerts to subscribers who have a friend in common.
A group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
) have developed a dating application called Bluedating running on mobile phones with Bluetooth. There is also an implementation of wireless dating called Serendipity being pioneered by MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. (Reported in New Scientist Magazine 20 March 2004.).
See also
- PiconetPiconetThe original piconet was a networking type used on RM Nimbus computers.These days, a piconet' is an ad-hoc computer network linking a user group of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave devices...
, ScatternetScatternetA scatternet is a type of ad-hoc computer network consisting of two or more piconets. Both of the terms 'scatternet' and 'piconet' are typically applied to Bluetooth wireless technology.-Description:... - ToothingToothingToothing was originally a hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank on the media who reported it. The hoax was created by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at the gaming magazine Edge, and ex-journalist Simon...
- Face timeFace timeFace time is an English idiom for direct personal interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location. Face time therefore occurs in "real life" or "meatspace" and contrasts primarily with interaction or contact which occurs over distance and/or electronically...
- LovegetyLovegetyLovegety is a matchmaking device available only in Japan, which allows users to find potential dates that match their personal preferences in the vicinity. There have been over 1,300,000 of these units sold in Japan at an approximate price of $21...
- List of PAN dating software
External links
- A Bluetooth Scatternet Formation Algorithm Ching Law and Kai-Yeung Siu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology