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IKEA Spoons, Plates And Bowls Turned Into Art

6:30PM January 14, 2012 | Sam Biddle

IKEA has to be the antithesis of art, right? Nothing you find in 80% of freshman dorms and my bedroom can be considered art. Or, you can hand it to photographer Carl Kleiner, and everything becomes beautiful. More »

Entertainment

Lunchtime Deal: New Year IKEA Breakfast

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11:30AM December 30, 2011 | Angus Kidman

OK, this isn’t so much a lunchtime deal as an advance planning breakfast deal. But if you don’t fancy cooking on January 1, IKEA is running a breakfast offer, and you could score yourself a meal for just $1. More »

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The Strangest Man In Ikea

3:15PM December 22, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Taeyoon Choi isn’t at this Ikea, the second largest store location in the world, to buy a coffee table. He’s not there for delicious meatballs and lingonberry sauce, either. He’s in Ikea to create crazy-weird experimental noise machines. More »

Gadgets

Use A Fake Wall To Create A Clean Charging Station

10:57AM September 15, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Here’s a simple DIY project from Kitesurfer that’ll let you charge your devices without the distracting clutter of power strips and wall worts. More »

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How IKEA Redesigned Its Bookshelves For A Bookless World

10:40AM September 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Books aren’t dead. Let’s not even say they’re dying, not yet. But physical books, the musty tomes you checked out from the library, are most certainly on the decline — to the point that IKEA has redesigned its products to accommodate a world without them. More »

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Study: People Would Sooner Make Love To Their Laptops Than To Their Lovers

8:20AM August 28, 2011 | Kwame Opam

It’s Saturday night, and you’re feeling randy. You turn to your significant other, and without a word you start nuzzling close. And without a word she pushes you off, too wrapped up in the Tudors online. You’re not alone. More »

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This Fake Chinese IKEA Store Might Be Better Than The Real IKEA

7:00PM August 11, 2011 | Casey Chan

After seeing the fake Apple Chinese store, I was pretty much prepared to see a knockoff store of anything. Who could they steal from next? Microsoft? Dell kiosks? Discount stores? Nope. Instead, they copied the pride (or bane) of Sweden: IKEA. More »

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Can You Believe This Is A Piece Of IKEA Furniture?

10:20PM May 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Ikea serves a purpose, sure, but I hate buying furniture out of necessity. More thought should go into your surroundings – but if you really can’t part with the Scandinavian furniture, at least consider Mykea’s fun decals. More »

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If IKEA Made Manuals For Sci-Fi Movies

6:20PM May 10, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Without ruining any plots (“ohmygod, the time machine WORKS!” I hear you cry), these imaginary Ikea manuals for some of the best sci-fi movies about are absolutely hilaridonkus. Who knew that’s how the tardis – sorry, tjardiis – works? More »

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What Living In An Ikea Would Look Like

3:00AM May 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

Every time I step into an Ikea, I can’t help but imagine myself getting trapped inside and having to live there forever. It ain’t a bad life! And it’d probably look a hell of a lot like this. More »