Sunday, April 28, 2013

New Aesthetic

I found this article very funny and interesting. The fact that Icelandic engineers had to create an app to prevent people from having intimate relationships with their own cousins...it's just funny to me. Apparently in Iceland, it is common for family members to "hook up" with each other. When I first read this, it surprised me because it's not something that you often hear about. This app is based off of a book called "The Book of Icelanders", which can trace Icelandic family lineages of 720,000 citizens. People can bump their phones together and find out if they are related or not. Because this is such a short article, it doesn't provide information on how this "phone bumping" system works...but it is definitely something that I would want to learn more about! For some reason the link button isn't working... http://betabeat.com/2013/04/helpful-new-app-keeps-people-from-sleeping-with-their-cousins/