Android App Helps Icelanders Avoid Sleeping With Their Cousin

Iceland is one of the only modern countries in the world in which citizens can easily trace their ancestry back thousands of years. With a population not much bigger than 300,000 people, this makes things difficult for dating. Practically everyone is related.

To help out, Sad Engineer has developed an Android app called ÍslendingaApp SES that lets Icelanders search for any other Icelander to see how they are related.

The app developers recently released a feature to called “bump” that lets people bump their phones against another person’s phone to see how they are related.

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