Toothing

Do you know what toothing is?
Well, for a start i can tell you that it´s related with Bluetooth technology, that recent cellphones have, and that allows you to connect to other cellphones or devices that also have bluetooth.

A friend of mine showed me a “nice” thing you can do with this cellphone feature: we were in the classroom with 30/40 people and he picked his Nokia 7650 and activated the bluetooth. In seconds he saw on the screen that 3 other students were also with BT enabled. The next step was start sending messages to those people, who we didnt knew. They all answered and also send pictures and messages. This is great because you don´t have to spend money to comunicate with people in a range of 10m.

So back to the initial question: what is toothing?
Wired Magazine has already an article on that:

And now comes “toothing,” where strangers on trains and buses and at bars and concerts hook up for clandestine sex by text messaging each other with their Bluetooth-enabled cell phones or PDAs.

Like what happened to internet, bluetooth is now a sex-usefull technology.