Single ladies can now project fake boyfriends on their curtains to pretend they’re not alone

If you’re a single lady and don’t have the time or the inclination to find yourself a boyfriend, soon you might not have to.

Rather than welcoming a flesh bag of love into your life, you could simply settle for a one-dimensional silhouette of a man beamed on to your curtains.

Because who needs conversation, hugs or even skin when all you really want is a nice, manly shadow?

If that sounds like you, we’d like to introduce you to a company called Leopalace21, a real estate business that develops apartments in Japan.

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They’ve noticed a rise in women living alone and the potential security risks this trend poses has led them to create something they call Man on the Curtain.

Essentially, it’s a device that projects the shadow of a man on a curtain.

The idea is that, from the outside, it will look like a bloke is strutting around the joint; therefore deterring baddies.

We’re not entirely sure it’s not inspired by that scene from Home Alone where Kevin McCallister tricks the robbers into thinking he’s having a raging house party when he’s really blasting Christmas carols by himself/living the dream.

And we’re not sure it’s entirely real.

But then, Leopalace21 have launched a competition offering five projector kits up as giveaways – so they would have made at least a few of these things.

And we found an online competition entry from which looks reasonably legit, so maybe this isn’t some kind of elaborate April Fools gag.

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Apparently, there will be 12 different dream boats for single ladies to choose from.

You can have a man swinging a baseball bat around an apartment willy nilly:

Man who shares the load of household chores:

Man just having a look at what's in the Trading Post:

Totes zen yoga man:

There’s also vision of a man whose spirit has been broken by the corporate world trudging home after work, casting off his suit jacket and tie as he ruminates on his meaningless life:

If you’ve got nothing better to do with your time/have a dark void deep inside that needs filling, you can watch each of the clips, which have been conveniently uploaded to Vimeo.

They each go for a good half an hour, so you’ve got six hours of one-dimensional men doing various activities to binge on if you so desire.

We’re not here to judge.