The body design includes a rigid-mounted battery frame, which helps provide greater body rigidity compared to a conventional compact car.

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To start with, they had to rely on a high-resolution camera mounted on a frame, and a series of filters attached to a rotating wheel, to create a set of single-frequency images from the same perspective, in order that they could be merged as desired.

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Her head was mounted in a rigid frame as the doctors studied computer-enhanced images of her brain.

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This is sadly not a model you can buy, a one-off created by UK bicycle insurer ETA, who we're hoping also offers premium discounts for frame-mounted miniguns and baskets full of grenades.

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The 12.1-inch active matrix LCD (liquid-crystal display) screen is mounted in "an anti-torsion, water-resistant magnesium frame, " according to the statement.

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"Of course, the camera was set to manual and I mounted a wide angle lens that allowed me to include the whole church in the frame, " he says.

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