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Design
Ikea-Style DIY Guillotine Covers All Your Extreme Roleplaying Needs
6:30AM Rosa Golijan | Whether you’re reenacting the French Revolution or screaming “Off with her head!” a la the Queen of Hearts, this DIY guillotine is the way to go. And based on the video, it looks easier to assemble than some shelving units. More »
Gadgets
DIY Secret Passage Adds Mystery To Your Home
1:00AM Adam Frucci | There’s really no doubt about it: secret passages are totally awesome. Which is why I can’t help but be smitten by this homemade hidden door that exposes a messy, messy office. More »
Robots
10:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating. More »
DIY Voice Modulator Makes Everybody Do The Robot (or At Least Sound Like One)
10:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating. More »
Design
The Bar Desk Makes Facebook Feel Like A Night On The Town
12:40AM Mark Wilson | The evolution of the computer desk seemed to stop somewhere in the mid 90s. But this bar-style desk made (entirely?) from IKEA components is a refreshing way to hide a hefty tower PC. More »
Design
Ikea Gaming Chair Relieves Arms at the Price of Your Children
4:20AM Mark Wilson | And there Ikea stood in front of 300,000 misshapen ironing boards. “These have a use!” someone proclaimed. That man received a raise, and the rest is history. More »
Design
Ikea’s Summer Solar Lights Are Pleasant Looking
7:00AM Jason Chen | It’s not the solar panels we were looking at before, but these solar lights from Ikea look pretty darn nice. Plus, they’re good for impressing men and women who don’t shave regularly. More »
Design
Really Bored Dude Camouflages Self as Paper, Bags and Boxes at an Ikea Store
12:00PM Adrian Covert | Some people would file this exercise in camouflage under performance art. Others would suggest this guy has too much time on his hands. I say, why can’t it be both? More »
Computers
Cheap IKEA Furniture Makes One Hell of a Linux Cluster
5:50AM Mark Wilson | My IKEA experiences have been pretty hit or miss, but maybe that’s just because I wasn’t building Linux rendering clusters out of the POÄNG chairs. Because one modder took a US$40 IKEA Helmer set of drawers and shoved in 6 Intel Quad Core processors. His end product featured 24 2.4 Ghz cores and 48GB of RAM. Where an example render on his DualCore Xenon 2.66 Ghz with 4 GB ram took 552 minutes (9.2 h), the IKEA machine breezed through the same task in just 64 minutes. Just don’t try to pick up your Helmer case on a weekend. You could seriously die. [Helmer via MAKE] More »
Design
Comfy IKEA Train Makes Me Want to Move to the Subway
9:30PM Jesus Diaz | IKEA has outfitted a train in Kobe with sofas and curtains—probably with names like Oompa-loompa, Svenssonjohansensson, Frida, and Bucarest. Unfortunately, the makeover is temporary, to mark the opening of a new shop in the city. Good, because otherwise I would move to live in there. I will miss my stair bookcase, yes, but I would make as many one-serving friends per hour as the number of pictures in the gallery after the jump. More »
Phones
