A new iPhone application called "Ugly Meter" lets users take photos of their faces and then analyzes their facial structure in real-time. Once the app is done scanning, it delivers a score on a 10-point scale. Get a 10 out of 10? It might tell you "You're so ugly, when you walk by the bathroom, the toilet flushes." But if you score something closer to 1, it might be a little kinder. A 2.6-rated picture, for example, might generate the comment, "If beauty were time, you'd be an eternity."
"We've done some serious games in the past and just wanted to do something funny," said Eugene Overline, co-owner and lead programmer of Dapper Gentlemen of Gilbert, Arizona, the company behind the application. "You take it out and you won't get your phone back for an hour."
When he's taken it out at dinner parties, he said," People will just be crying, they're laughing so hard."
The application, which launched last week, costs 99 cents in Apple's Overline said the application is based on actual science linking symmetry to beauty, but given the limitations of an iPhone camera (in terms of lighting and resolution), it's meant to be a light-hearted game, not any kind of scientific tool.
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