12 ultra-modern ways to meet your match

Who's it for: anyone of any age looking for a fun night out
Cost: From £14 - £60
Where: www.speeddater.com

Wireless flirting
Apple Mac users have always had a reputation for being cutting-edge but this new craze takes dating methods to a new level. Popular with Apple Mac users found working in Wi-fi coffee shops in the States, this form of techno flirting is the definite way to make mac-headz swoon over their apple lattes. Wireless flirting is all about sharing music libraries via wireless connections. This intricate form of love letter writing involves creating a new library in your i-tunes folder that you then share. 'Try_the_new_dalek" song titles, 'pretty_brown_eyes_look_over' are the kind of secret flirtations moving across the wi-fi waves.

Who's it for: Apple Mac-headz with time to play
Cost: Apple Mac Power Book
Where: Wi-fi coffee shops across USA, coming soon!

Wine-tasting parties
Dating party organisers are always looking for new ways to attract people to their events and wine-tasting parties are the latest dignified offering. These parties are a good way to meet your match, in an upmarket, high-society kind of way. True wine-tasters don't actually drink the wine, but sniff it and roll it around in their mouth. Luckily these wine-tasting parties allow each guest six glasses of red or white, plus a selection of canapes. Also on offer are champagne tasting parties. And if you don't meet a match, at least you'll glean a few good dinner party wine tips.

Who's it for? The discerning dater
Cost: £30 for wine tasting, £49 for champagne
Where: www.urbansocial.com

I'm a singleton get me outta here!
These adventure weekends, packed with terrifyingly sporty activities, are popular with thrill-seeking and brave singletons. I'm a singleton brings together 20 single professionals, 10 men, 10 women. It involves a weekend away (normally somewhere cold and un-luxurious like Wales) and doing lots of sporty activities such as rock-climbing, kayaking and abseiling. Staying in a log cabin out in the wilds, the group is subjected to a series of challenges. There's not the remotest chance of trying to put on an act when you're dangling by a thin rope off the side of a cliff with you're bum straining through your climbing pants, but the upside of forsaking glamour is that you get to bond with your group and get to know everyone really well. And face it, sporty men are sexy....

Who's it for: Anyone with an open mind...
Cost: £200
Where: www.urbansocial.com

Pet parties
Davina MacCall famously met her husband whilst walking her dog, so for animal lovers, pet parties could be the best way forward to find new love! 'Yappy hours' is the latest niche dating craze Stateside. Doggie owners get together in parks with their pooches and swap pooch stories, and maybe phone numbers too.

Who's it for: Dog owners
Where: Coming to the UK soon

Lock and key parties
Activity is one of the best tips for singles. If you're used to arriving at a party and getting stuck with the world's biggest bore with bad breath for hours, then lock and keys might be the answer for you. It's not kinky, the formula works as a simple ice-breaker and helps party-goers to relax. Girls get given a lock and boys a key. You then mingle with the crowd and men ask if they can 'unlock you'! It's the perfect conversation opener, and a good escape too.

Who's it for: Everyone's welcome...
Cost: £14
Website:www.cosmosparty.com

Quiet parties
Fed up with being deafened in busy bars having to shout to make your self heard? Old-fashioned love letters are making a comeback at quiet parties. On arrival you're given a pen and notepad and all conversation is by note. This method harks back to Victorian times when men courted their dates via a series of coded love letters and flowers. If you want to be wooed with words, this could be just the method for you.

Who's it for: the literary lover
Cost: £10
Where: www.cosmoparty

Singles cinema nights
What's the one thing so many of us single girls want to do? Snuggle up in the back seat of the movies with one popcorn and cola deal between you. And now you can do that! Singles cinema nights have taken the USA by storm. Warm up with a drink, mingle and then take to your seats to watch one of the latest movies... and when the lights come up often the crowd descends on the nearest bar to continue socialising.

Who's it for: movie lovers and film buffs
Where:Coming to a cinema in the UK soon...