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Indeed. The latest fad in dating is smell dating

http://uselesspress.org/things/smell-dating/

Waving an electronic nose around is even more inconspicuous. Now you could have an app that would match the current odors smelled around and your state of mind, and automatically match them with a database to point you to people giving you good feelings.

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Is this from this year's Stupid Hackathon? (http:////www.stupidhackathon.com/) Because it totally could be.

Same people involved in both Useless Press and the hackathon

On the face of it, it's at least sort of based on science, at least when compared to other methods of playing matchmaker.

There are actually speed-dating events based on this:

https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/romancing-the-armpit-25-may

Feels stupid, but somewhere inside of me it also makes sense.

Probably in your sinuses.

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