Loneliness has compelled a single woman to create a light bulb device to track relationship breakups on social media to help fellow single people feel better.
According to Odditycentral.com, Japanese YouTuber Marina Fujiwara managed to put a smile on the faces of single people this holiday season with a smart light bulb that lights up whenever couples break up on social media.
Single people are bound to feel worthless when they see others with their partners doing holiday shopping together, walking through the street hand in hand, and posting photos of themselves online.
To make them understand that not all that glitters is gold, Marina devised a smart light bulb that lights up whenever someone breaks up with their partner via social media.
She is reported as saying on Twitter that her breakup light bulb is connected to the internet through a “bridge” and is set to turn on whenever a breakup status is posted on Twitter.
“I really hate Christmas. It’s not a light joke like ‘Christmas or perish’, but I really don’t like it. I want to celebrate Christmas. But when you see a couple in the world going on a Christmas date and doing something like that, I am attacked by a huge sense of loneliness,” Marina wrote on twitter.
The idea of the breakup bulb dawned on the inventor after figuring out that when couples break up their shared accounts’ icons and descriptions are usually changed to “parted”.
She then decided to set up her invention to scan posts on Twitter based on the “parted/parting” hashtags and light up if it detects any couple breaking up.
“First of all, connect a ‘bridge’ that will become a hub to connect the light bulb to the Internet. Setup is completed by simply connecting to a WiFi router at home with a LAN cable. Very easy,” Marina explained.
