Apple’s Stargate Chamber cost $100 million, not for party!

At last week’s press conference, CEO of Apple Steve Jobs shows off their biggest room in Apple campus. But it’s no ordinary room for you to party, even though hardly anyone would hear you if you’re in there.

Steve Jobs gave the world a glimpse of the space-age chambers that Apple’s engineers use to test its prototype iPhones. The one shown to public is called the “Stargate Chamber”, and there are 16 other similar rooms.

Apple invested over $100 million to construct 17 such anechoic chambers, facilities that are “connected to sophisticated equipment that simulates cellular base stations, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices – even GPS satellites.”
During today’s press conference, Jobs said that various evaluative tests conducted in the chambers are administered by 18 PhD-holding scientists and engineers. I hope they don’t look like Dexter.
[via Gizmodo]











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