New App Aims to Prevent Icelandic Incest

A team of Icelandic software designers have recently released an app called "IslendigaApp." The apps slogan? "Bump the app before you bump in bed." The app allows users to bump phones with a potential sexual partner, which triggers a search of an ancestry website to confirm that the two consenting adults are not too closely related. If the users are, say, first cousins, an "incest alarm" will loudly sound. The app currently has very positive reviews on the Apple Store. Especially in Iceland, where there are only 300,000 people, inadvertent incest is a problem that is all too real. This app aims to use innovative technology to prevent such awkward occurrences.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/17/islendingaapp_icelanders_bump_phones_before_sex_to_check_anti_incest_app.html