Hasta La Ideas

pToday Apple held a press conference detailing their problem and solution to the iPhone 4’s much-hyped antenna situation. We were glued to A HREF=”http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/live-from-apples-iphone-4-press-conference/?sort=oldestrefresh=60″ Engadget’s excellent liveblogging of the event/A, and if you hit that link you can read all the technical details and stats, some of which are quite interesting./p

pBut 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!/p

pimg alt=”0anechoic.jpg” src=”http://www.core77.com/blog/images/0anechoic.jpg” width=”468″ height=”930″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //p

pApparently 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.br /
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