For Many People,

living alone can be frightening,

 especially ladies, oops have I just committed a PC faux pas? any way here is an ingenious idea to deter would be assailants, burglars or others, aptly named “Man on the Curtain” the system consists of a projector that connects to your smartphone to throw a life-like silhouette of a man on the window curtains, the idea is that when someone looks at your apartment window from the outside, they see this silhouette and are fooled into thinking that there is actually a man living there as well, in case you’re wondering what makes Man on the Curtain better than a simple cardboard cutout or a mannequin, the answer is “full motion”, the device doesn’t just project a static silhouette of a man, but a naturally moving one that actually looks very realistic,

system currently features 12 silhouette options which were actually created using real actors performing various routines, users can choose from a guy lifting weights in front of the window, another practicing martial arts or shadowboxing, and even one enthusiastically playing guitar, and since an insistent criminal may actually stick around for a while, after seeing the shadow, every one of the 12 options is actually a 30-minute long routine featuring various natural motions, once one routine ends, it moves to another, which means Man on the Curtain offer six hours of “man time” before any of the footage has to be repeated,

the company does not have any plans to make Man on the Curtain commercially available in the near future, but it is give away 5 prototypes to anyone who fills out this application form, I assume you have to be based in Japan, but who knows, if this thing gets enough attention, we may actually see it available for purchase soon, what a neat idea.