Incest is a terrible thing. But when you're one person among a population of 300 thousand, your odds of contributing to genetic bottleneck go substantially up. That's the problem in Iceland, where just about everyone is related to everyone else and some downright... creepy... marital relations have inadvertently come about.
(I'm assuming those were inadvertent anyway...)
Enter
App of Icelanders, a new app for Android-based devices. Utilizing a database called Book of Icelanders that has data on 95% of the country's native population going back 300 years, smartphone users can find information about their family with the touch of a finger. But the real gimmick is what the developers have named the "Incest Prevention Alarm": by merely touching your Android smartphone with another also loaded with App of Icelanders, the software automatically determines if you and the other person are cousins. Or brothers. Or sisters. Or parent and child...
(Hey, it happened to Oedipus didn't it?!)
The developers have come up with a catchy ad slogan for their product: "Bump in the app before you bump in the bed". If you have an Android phone and you're Icelandic,
you can find it here.
Bump here for more about this app, which is no doubt being coded-up even as we speak for segments of the population in certain quarters of Appalachia...
Apple should jump on this for iOS gadgets. It could be called iNcest!
(I'll just leave by the back door...)
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