Il “Toothing” (cuccare via Bluetooth) è stato inventato da un giornalista GB

No 'Toothing' please, we're British | The Register: ... Last year the BBC, Reuters and (inevitably) Wired all reported that Bluetooth phones were instrumental in a wave of casual sex sweeping Britain... users were using the Bluetooth radio on their handsets to send suggestive anonymous solicitations to people within range. Who then copped off.

Now a British journalist has admitted to making it all up... hats off to Ste Curran, former Editor at Large at games magazine Edge, who fabricated the stunt.

"All we did was register a forum (which has now been taken down by the service provider, but we have a backup) and fill it with fictional posts by fictional Toothing ’sceners... In turn, that brought Real People to our forum. Others created forums for their localities - Sweden, Denmark, Italy, whatever," he writes.

...Credit must go to author Andrew Brown, for precipitating the uncovering of the hoax. In his Guardian column [not yesterday, but last April] he sounded a note of caution... the hoax wouldn't have grown legs, and scampered into the public prints, if it hadn't been for a press pack resolutely determined to overstate the transformative power of technology...