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The Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung’s first foldable phone to come in a clamshell form, is turning out to be a mixed bag so far. It’s going to be a lot cheaper than the first Galaxy Fold but it will still be beyond the reach of most consumers. It will use an ultra-thin glass that should be more durable than the … Continue reading

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Over the decades, we’ve uncovered ancient buried mummies. Unfortunately, due to the lack of photographs from back then, we don’t really know how they would have looked like if they were alive. However, science and technology have managed to roughly recreate their looks based on their skeletal structures.

Now it seems that not only do we know what they might look like, but what they could sound like as well. This is thanks to the work of researchers who have managed to artificially reconstruct the “voice” of a 3,000 year old Egyptian mummy. Known as Nesyamun, he is a priest who lived under pharaoh Rameses XI.

How they managed to recreate his voice was by creating a digital reconstruction of the mummy’s vocal tract and then 3D printing it out. According to Prof David Howard, head of the department of electronic engineering at Royal Holloway, University of London, “What we have done is to create the sound of Nesyamun as he is in his sarcophagus. It is not a sound from his speech as such, as he is not actually speaking.”

While perhaps not exactly the most accurate creation, it is still an interesting technique that could also be applied to future findings. One of the other researchers, Prof John Schofield of the department of archaeology at the University of York, added some further insight on its significance.

“It is just the sheer excitement and the extra dimension that this could bring to museum visits, for example, or site visits to Karnak. The idea of going to a museum and coming away having heard a voice from 3,000 years ago is the sort of thing people might well remember for a long time.”

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While Microsoft might have yet to fully embrace the foldable smartphone design, the company does seem to think that a hybrid device such as a smartphone that can transform into a tablet does have merit. This is why back in 2019, the company announced the Surface Duo, an Android smartphone that can be folded and comes with dual displays.

In fact, Microsoft seems to really want this to work out as the company has since released a preview toolkit that will help developers better create apps for the upcoming handset. This means that when the Surface Duo does eventually launch, developers should already be prepared and should have compatible apps that will be able to take advantage of the dual screen design of the phone.

That being said, Microsoft is not the first company to embrace such an idea. It has actually been done many years ago by companies such as Kyocera, and more recently, LG also embraced the dual screen design by selling the second display as an optional accessory. The form factor has yet to truly take off in any big way, but it seems that Microsoft is quite invested.

The Surface Duo is currently set for a release in 2020, but based on last year’s announcement, it seems that it will be packing 2019’s Snapdragon 855 chipset which we have to say that we are a little concerned, but maybe Microsoft might make some changes ahead of its release.

Microsoft Is Preparing Developers For Its Surface Duo Dual Screen Smartphone , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.