Biometric-Type iPhone App Might Just Get You A Date. Or Slapped.

fit or fugly

I’ve often suspected the staff at Cult of Mac of being significantly more attractive than bloggers at sites that don’t care how attractive their bloggers are. And now I can prove it.

Eighteen-year-old English entrepreneur Ed Nash has come up with a 99-cent iPhone app that claims to use Fibonacci’s golden ratio to scientifically determine whether or not a face is aesthetically pleasing. Just snap a photo of the hapless subject, adjust the anchor points, hit the button and viola, instant decision.

Fit or Fugly’s App Store page suggests you use it “to break the ice at dinner parties.” Sure. But we’re going to suggest “the ice” isn’t the only thing that’ll get broken when your iPhone decides the girl sitting next to you is “fugly.”

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Eli Milchman

When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path — which explains why he's Cult of Mac's technology editor. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of Wired.com and BIKE Magazine, among others. Hang with him on Twitter.

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  • Fen Tiger

    Cripes it’s Boris Johnson, Mayor of London… you don’t need an app to know how annoying and fugly he is.

  • http://www.tavshande.com/vanity Petr

    This app is a blatant rip off of an app that was featured last month in Cosmo magazine. Called VANITY. and it’s a bad ripoff.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx0Ea9z-NLk

    http://www.tavshande.com/vanity

    http://www.thevanityreport.com

  • Peter

    Haha – that comment was pathetic.

    Do you know that there are hundreds of fart apps on the App Store?!

    For some reason all the press writes about this app not yours.

    (I don’t have it yet)