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IKEA’s Video Assembly Instructions Vastly Increase Your Chances Of Success

The ongoing joke that IKEA’s flat-pack furniture is confusingly complicated to assemble might be rendered moot now that the Swedish company is rolling out video assembly instructions that look considerably easier to follow than its printed manuals.


February 21, 2012
Gadgets

You Can Make Speakers From IKEA Salad Bowls

If you happen to have a handful of unused speaker drivers, some fibreglass and a length of vacuum tubes, you too can fashion a three-way speaker out of some IKEA salad bowls.


February 16, 2012
Online

You Can Buy IKEA Products On Amazon

We don’t know how long this has been going on or if it’s new but we’ve never heard about it so HOLY CRAP you can buy Ikea products on Amazon right now! That’s right, you can get Ikea’s affordable furniture with the one click convenience of Amazon.


January 14, 2012
Cameras

IKEA Spoons, Plates And Bowls Turned Into Art

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.


December 30, 2011
Entertainment

Lunchtime Deal: New Year IKEA Breakfast

Gizmodo AU

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.


December 22, 2011
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The Strangest Man In Ikea

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.


September 15, 2011
Gadgets

Use A Fake Wall To Create A Clean Charging Station

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.


September 10, 2011
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How IKEA Redesigned Its Bookshelves For A Bookless World

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.


August 28, 2011
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Study: People Would Sooner Make Love To Their Laptops Than To Their Lovers

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.


August 11, 2011
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This Fake Chinese IKEA Store Might Be Better Than The Real IKEA

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.