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Apple's crazy-looking anechoic testing chamber looks like they subleased it from the X-Men

By Rain Noe - July 16, 2010

in Tech | Object Culture

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.

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aleix

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did you see what SONY did for Milan 2010?

http://www.aleixdesign.com/blog/?p=302
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RTO

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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 :)
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daniel erwin

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how would you dust that?
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cahyo

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well,ok..
but do they have signal streght testing chamber?
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Bryan

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