Khawlhring Vanlalhneha stood on the steps of his tailor's shop in Aizawl, in northeast India, surveying the morning rush.
By the age of 11, he had already settled on his future career when he took an after-school job at a tailor's.
The carriage, which was used as a garden shed and a tailor's workshop after it went out of service, was restored at Ffestiniog Railway for the 150th anniversary.
Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.
On the first night of every cruise, teens are invited to an event called the Download, led by Vibe's counselors, where they can tailor the club's organized programming to meet their interests.
Nokia's refusal to tailor its phones for U.S. carriers was the biggest reason its market share in the U.S. dropped from 33% in 2002 to 10% today.
The other day I was discussing all of this with the tailor who's altering a jacket for me.
Not a problem, as the hotel is located next to men's tailor Brioni.
His next task is to tailor Priceline's technology to a new generation of smart phones and other mobile devices.
"It's actually just a neoprene elbow sleeve that we cut, and then the team's tailor sewed it up, rounding off the front, " Gardner said.
Rather than release it straight to the commercial market it's tailor-made for, 3M told us that we could expect to first see it put to use in educational settings -- offering children, parents and teachers kinesthetic learning opportunities.
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The other thing it does is it makes it extremely easy now to tailor a stem cell to an individual because all I have to do is get a few skin cells from you and then put in these magic factors, and suddenly I've got an embryonic stem cell line that's tailor made directly to you.
The French luxury conglomerate's heir recently oversaw the purchase of Arnys, the respected tailor of Paris's Left Bank, in order to introduce a level of bespoke expertise.
After a few iterations, the theory goes, companies will have captured enough hard data to know how to tailor next year's budget, based on which campaigns work.
Because smart skins are grown by depositing layer upon layer, the base coating can be used as a foundation for adding other ingredients to tailor the material's properties for specific purposes.
Much like the film itself, Mr. Iglesias's music for Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is understated.
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Which probably has something to do with him landing the part of George Smiley in the soon-to-be-released film adaptation of John le Carre's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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It's far easier to tailor accessories to Apple than anyone else.
Where his main American rival prefers standard solutions, Zwick's engineers go for a tailor-made approach.
Manley said because the brand is committed to China, it's important to design and tailor vehicles specifically to Chinese tastes.
It was driven by a number of box-office successes such as The King's Speech, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Jane Eyre.
Compared with other tax dilemmas people are facing such as whether to take capital gains so-called donor-advised funds seem tailor-made for this year's uncertainty.
The carmakers want to tailor each vehicle to a customer's order, so they are buying robots that can recognise different models and adapt accordingly.
That technology is getting cheaper, the data are getting more reliable, and some car companies are starting to offer insurers access to their onboard-telematics systems to harvest driving information to tailor insurance premiums to an individual's behavior.
But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
Japan's NEC, for instance, sells face-recognition technology to allow advertisers to tailor what ad is showing on a digitised screen depending on the viewer's sex and age.
Ajay Hira, of local wig maker Legal Tailor, said inquiries from Hong Kong's lawyers jumped 30% before the judge's decision.
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But mobile advertising through text messages is the most focused: if marketers use mobile firms' profiles of their customers cleverly enough, they can tailor their advertisements to match each subscriber's habits.
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