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. (The vicinity can be a public and populated space, like a pub, a department stores or hypermarket, a skyscraper, a hospital, a street, a plaza, a beach and so on — called blueplaces). 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. Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). ... The term date can refer to: A day according to a calendar; see calendar date. ... Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... A department store organizes its goods by departments, such as womens clothes, home furnishings, electronics, and the like. ... The produce section of a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter (Wal-Marts hypermarket brand). ... The Sears Tower in Chicago is still the tallest building in the world with its antennas included. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... Wireless dating or Bluedating (from Bluetooth) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone and bluetooth technologies. ... Chat may refer to a casual conversation an internet chat room or instant messaging system Internet relay chat, a particular chat room system Chat, a kind of bird Chat, the waste rocks produced in mining Le Chat, a Belgian comic strip Khat, a narcotic plant Chats, the way British soldiers... Bluechat is a direct text chat between two or more users, where every one utilizes a bluetooth device (i. ...

There is an implementation of wireless dating called Serendipity (the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for) being pioneered by MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. (Reported in New Scientist Magazine 20 March 2004.). Another open source study is called “spontact”. Spontact comes with ICQ support. Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Speck uses its own appliance, but bases exchange of data on Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). ...

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. The ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. ...

Further implementations include Jambo, Enpresence, SmallPlanet's CrowdSurfer,Easy Jack , MobiLuck, Nokia Sensor and, the latest, 6th Sense.

See also

• Lovegetty
• Piconet, Scatternet
• Toothing
• Face time
• List of PAN dating software

Lovegety is a wireless-enabled, spontaneous matchmaking service that originated in Japan in 1998, see CNN article on LoveGety, Wired article. ... A piconet is a network of computing devices using bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven slave devices. ... A scatternet is set of piconets connected through sharing devices. ... Toothing was originally a media hoax that claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange sexual encounters. ... Look up Face time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... PAN dating software is computer software to encourage conversation with others on a similar wireless network. ...

External links

• MIT media lab: Online Dating Research Center
• http://perth.mit.edu/~ching/pubs/ScatternetAlg.pdf

• Free Online Dating Web Sites