After stripping out known risk factors such as smoking, diabetes and cholesterol, a pattern between body shape and clot risk emerged, independent of body weight alone.

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Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.

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Unlike the jump from the original PadFone to the PadFone 2, the latest generation ditches the polycarbonate body with the iconic zen pattern in favor of an aerospace-grade aluminum unibody.

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The shimmering long striped gowns and those made from a tiny glitzy checkerboard pattern that clung to the body, which closed the show, had everyone snapping photographs and cheering for Jacobs.

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To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit.

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His hunch proves right when a strange pattern of razor cuts is found on the boy's body.

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If the environment being spread through is an animal embryo and the reagents are hormones that trigger the differentiation of the body's pigment-producing cells, the upshot is a distinct pattern of pigmentation.

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