Today Apple held a press conference detailing their problem and solution to the iPhone 4's much-hyped antenna situation. We were glued to Engadget's excellent liveblogging of the event, and if you hit that link you can read all the technical details and stats, some of which are quite interesting.
But this post isn't about the stats and antenna solution (in a nutshell, free cases). Instead I wanted to show you the crazy-looking anechoic--as in, "no echo"--chamber in which Apple tests their phone prototypes. Check these rooms out!

Apparently Apple's got 17 of them, which cost north of $100 million freaking dollars, placing my dream of having my living room redone like this firmly out of reach.
Comments
iPhail
well,ok..
but do they have signal streght testing chamber?
how would you dust that?
Cool stuff, seen these before, the BBC used to have a permanent one for testing microphones systems for broadcast radio/TV. Interesting video on BBC R&D here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8506128.stm :)
did you see what SONY did for Milan 2010?
http://www.aleixdesign.com/blog/?p=302