Have these guys just changed the way we pee forever?

Real men don’t pee with the lights on.

So on occasion we’re blinded by bravado and misjudge our line of fire during the 2am tinkle – causing inevitable toilet seat/rim spray. For this, ladies, we are sorry.

But the way us blokes use the John is about to change forever.

A group of lads have come up with a simple yet revolutionary device to stick on the underside of the toilet seat – a red light.

The GloBro emits a dull glow which illoominates the tinkle zone enough for boys to know where’s good to pee, but without interrupting their sleep circle.

When most light enters the eyes it sends a signal to the brain to stop producing melatonin, a hormone released at night to make you sleepy.

So when you turn on the light in the middle of the night you’re actually changing the chemical balance of your brain and waking yourself up in the process.

But red light doesn’t do this.

Rich Brophy, co-founder of Bondi startup Frothonauts, said: ‘Two hundred years of being asked, begged and nagged to put the seat down hasn’t worked.

‘We knew that to get guys like us to put the seat down, there had to be a genuine incentive.

‘The GloBro creates a subtle psychological shift from “putting her seat down” to “turning my
light off”.’

The invention is part of a Kickstarter project.

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