One of the biggest talking points during Apple's press conference earlier today (aside from the fact that Apple Loves us) was that no new products leave the company's Cupertino campus without stringent testing. Given the veil of secrecy that Apple prefers to operate under during product development, it comes as no surprise that they'd be none too thrilled to outsource that testing to third-parties or to facilities that they don't control. Under such circumstances, there's only one thing to do: build your own test facilities.

As part of their desire to drive home the point that they take all measures to ensure the highest quality in all of the products they release, Apple allowed us all to stick a toe--just a toe, mind you--through the looking glass and catch a glimpse of one of their rarely seen parts of their campus: Apple's multi-million dollar antenna design and testing labs.

The labs boasts scads of equipment to simulate a variety of cellular base stations, GPS signals and WiFi networks, as well as carbon-laden foam in their testing chambers that simulate human tissue. They use it to test for signal interferance as if someone were holding the phone. The company's engineers purportedly spend one to two years testing the wireless and antenna performance of each of their products before sending them off to eager consumers to snatch up.

Looking at the photos and video posted to their site, you can almost smell the money that went into setting the test facilities up. One of our favorite shots? Check out the wide angle view (photo up top) of the anechoic chamber, which Apple's engineer's have dubbed "The Stargate Room."

My, my. That certainly is one spiky room.

The video is worth a viewing, if for nothing else to puzzle over who the evil genius was that figured out that a room that looks like that is the best way to test for wireless signal fidelity.