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The dreaded Allen key may look less like a tool of Satan now that Ikea has rolled out the first in a series of how-to videos for assembling its products. Known for its notoriously perplexing ...

Toronto designer Adam Pickard has turned paper IKEA manuals into an augmented reality app that shows users life-size instructions on how to build their furniture. Pickard's AssembleAR app was designed ...

Let's be clear: we freakin' love Ikea. It has supplied our homes with numerous affordable essentials, from surprisingly chic storage solutions to bathroom must haves and everything in between. But ...

Compared to putting together IKEA's furniture sets, assembling one of the brand's meals made from frozen food is easy. But a promotional campaign from the Swedish company aims to make preparing their ...

Some people love the challenge, the meditative peace of wordless instructions and fifty tiny bags of tiny screws. But some of us scream at the mere sight of a hex key. Depending on which group you ...

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