"Wouldn't it be cool if you could walk into a Starbucks and automatically be able to tell if someone was single or married?"

That sure would be cool. I wonder if Version 2.0 will be a smaller version that can be worn around a finger instead of on the wrist.

Now we just need an additional sign to indicate that someone is incredible in the sack.

It seems to just really suck to be a young single person these days. You're poor, debt ridden and lonely. How bleak.

I imagine that she'll run into the same kinds of problems IRL as she did online - most of the men who approach her will be married, or time wasters, or completely unsuitable - but now, she'll have to reject them to their faces. No thanks.

Oh hey, this sounds great for me! The grandpa types I flirt with always end up being partnered. A black wrist band sounds great except what if people think it means I'm till in mourning for my dear departed partner? Whoever thought we would end up missing the 1970s-era cave man who just hit us over the head with his club and dragged us back to his cave? That's how I met all my husbands.

Thank god I'm a Gen X'er. The last generation of actual humans to inhabit this country and are also capable of taking a joke.

Maybe you could wear a pink bandana on your hip, or a blue or orange one depending on 'top or bottom'. Maybe a whole sub-culture of people thought of this years ago?

Wouldn't it be cool if you could walk into a Starbucks and...

...just get a cup of goddamned coffee?

No, we do not need to go back to fan language or wearing certain kinds and colors of flower or parsing the positions of claddagh rings or wearing onions on our belts.

We need to start teaching kids -- somewhere, somehow -- how to observe body language and listen to the words people speak aloud in order to determine the difference between a stranger who does not want to talk to you and a stranger who wants to flirt with you. And maybe how to take the risk of saying "Hi" in public to someone you've never met, while we're at it, but first things first, you know?

"We need to start teaching kids..."
Great to hear that you have all the big answers nobody ever thought of to cure the sick world, moron.

Just wait. Women will wear these things, and then complain about all of the "unwanted attention" they're getting from "creepy men"

10, Uh yeah, women are not going to wear those things.

@10 Don't be a creeper and you'll get no complaints.

However, you do sort of have a point that people would pay more attention to if it didn't come with the misogyny. I'm not sure what to think about this, usually when I go to a cafe or a grocery store I just want to get my coffee and food, not to get hit on by random men. I mean, we already get enough street harrassment (and store harrassment, and office harrassment, etc.) I wear my hair tied up all the time now, because when I used to have it down strange men kept touching and stroking it. I can't see how they thought this was an okay thing to do, but there we were! Some men just will not accept any boundaries.

Why can't she just go to singles meetups? They're in every city!

@13

Maybe we need more Rom-Coms where the couple meets via... well, any avenue at all that's specifically organized to help people find romantic partners.

We can't all accidentally spill our Lattes onto the hood of a Bentley.

@9

Moron I certainly am, but how about you go lurk in your local coffee shop wearing your dating bracelet for a while, and then let us know how things are working out for the early-adopting big-brain types?

@4 is unquestionably correct

That artwork kinda looks like a thin version of Ringworld - I like it.

As for signals and signs seeking friendly interaction, I vote for keeping a slightly prickly object in a pocket so that when you feel it, you are reminded to smile and look right at someone (with quick, un-creepy eye contact) and maybe even make a time and place appropriate comment. You won't find if you don't reach out.

Interesting idea. If it achieved widespread adoption it would be a great way to gatekeep your personal space. If you're going out to a bar and want to be approached, wear the wristband. If you just want to chill at the coffeeshop and be left alone, leave the wristband at home.

Too bad the website doesn't seem to offer wristbands for different sexualities, would be useful to know if someone is gay/straight/bi before approaching them.

I think this idea would have worked 5 or 6 years ago.
Now with the #MeToo movement, it's just better to not approach women so you're not called a rapist later on in life.
But hey, kudos to her for being able to reject men to their face. Better than being rejected or ignored on dating sites.

@19

I second that. Sing it, bro! Please keep yourself safe and don't ever ever approach any women ever.

How is this a profitable business??

@19 I was reading that article about the SMM list just earlier today. One guy was on there for "asked for my number after a cab ride". @20 is a lying sack of shit, don't trust him.

@21

In 1975-76, Gary Dahl offered America individually packaged rocks for $4 apiece (about $19 in today's dollars).

He sold 1.5 million of them.

And America is at least as bored today as it was then...

@23 them dudes barely had color tv in the 70s...

For years I found a wedding ring was a great way to get laid. Apparently some women just wanna get fucked and that's it, and I was more than game.