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March 24, 2015 How Do Bodies Measure Up?

Even as our world becomes more and more digitized, measurements are still used to quantify the shape and size of the human body. But measurements are human constructs and there isn’t an objective truth for what makes a measurement “accurate.” To further complicate things, no...

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January 29, 2015 Visualizing BMI’s “Blind Spots”

Body Mass Index, commonly known as BMI, is something you’ve probably calculated for yourself at some point. It’s a metric that places you on a health scale that’s purely based on your height and weight. For example, I’m 6’1” and 197 lbs, which places me...

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January 9, 2015 The ABC’s of Avatars

OUR MISSION At Body Labs, our mission is to digitize and organize all the information about a human body’s shape, size, and pose. We see the digital body model as a platform – literally an object upon and around which goods and services are created and acquired. We...

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