What's a Nice Pager Like You Doing in a Place Like This

Almost half a million Japanese are wearing their hearts in their sleeves, taking advantage of beeper technology to create a pulsing electronic personal ad to attract a mate in a crowd. The Lovegety (yes, its literal) is an electronic oval disk that projects your preferences -- a choice of karaoke, chat or friends (reputedly implying something a little less platonic) -- into a crowd and alerts you to the presence of any other Lovegetys on compatible settings. An upgrade in August will increase the devices range from 15 to 100 feet, and add the options of movie, drink and dinner. So, uh, is that a beeper in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?