IKEA has some of the most versatile furniture around. The chain offers staple pieces and decor that tend to be ...

Call it The Electric Kool-Aid Try-To-Assemble-An-End-Table Test. A new, apparently reality-based webseries called HIKEA presents a simple yet highly intriguing challenge. In each episode, participants ...

A lot of people like buying furniture from Ikea because it's stylish, functional and affordable. The only problem is the purchase usually comes ready to assemble. The task of transforming a ...

Putting together Ikea furniture is a cruel test of mettle that most of us must brave sooner or later, but science has (finally) done something worthwhile by creating an Ikea-furniture-assembling robot ...

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Psychologists have long said that men tend to be better than women at spatial tasks, like mentally picturing and manipulating shapes. Hundreds of studies spanning several decades have shown that on ...

A new video game allows those who have never assembled IKEA furniture (or even those who have but can't get enough) to experience the inherent frustration of it. The video game is called Höme ...

Men and women in Ikea. Researchers look at gender differences in assembling Ikea furniture. With manuals men and women are about the same. Without manuals, men are faster. Pavel Golovkin AP ...