[null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_1.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_1.jpg", "formatted_filename": "fold", "alt_text": "fold_1", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 699}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_2.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_2.jpg", "formatted_filename": "fold", "alt_text": "\u672a\u6807\u9898-2", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_3.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_3.jpg", "formatted_filename": "fold", "alt_text": "\u672a\u6807\u9898-2", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_4.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_4.jpg", "formatted_filename": "fold", "alt_text": "fold_4", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 1050}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_5.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/this-ikea-packaging-concept-turns-into-a-stool/fold_5.jpg", "formatted_filename": "fold", "alt_text": "fold_5", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 1050}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_layout.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_layout.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea countries layout", "alt_text": "ikea_countries_layout", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_1.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_1.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea countries", "alt_text": "ikea_countries_1", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_2.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_2.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea countries", "alt_text": "ikea_countries_2", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 788}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_3.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/08/ikea-subtly-redesigns-its-products-for-each-countryculture/ikea_countries_3.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea countries", "alt_text": "ikea_countries_3", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 715}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_1.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_1.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_1", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 761}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_2.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_2.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_2", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 761}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_3.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_3.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_3", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 787}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_4.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_4.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_4", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 788}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_5.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_5.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_5", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 761}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_6.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_6.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_6", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_7.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_7.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_7", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 787}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_8.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_8.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_8", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 787}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_9.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_9.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_9", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 787}, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_10.jpg", "src": "http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2018/06/auto-draft/ikea_nasa_furniture_10.jpg", "formatted_filename": "ikea nasa furniture", "alt_text": "ikea_nasa_furniture_10", "rendered_width": 1050, "rendered_height": 700}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/3194594c1cdfc46964f22d726eedd5e2/206418419/01-smart-led-light-bulbs-1600.jpg", "src": "http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/3194594c1cdfc46964f22d726eedd5e2/206418419/01-smart-led-light-bulbs-1600.jpg", "formatted_filename": "smart led light bulbs"}, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "https://static1.i4u.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_image/images/2018/04/robot-ikea.jpg", "src": "https://static1.i4u.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_image/images/2018/04/robot-ikea.jpg", "formatted_filename": "robot ikea", "rendered_width": 300, "rendered_height": 250}, null, {"document_url": "http://www.gizmodo.cz/?tag=ikea", "unformatted_src": "https://static1.i4u.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_image/images/2018/04/robot-ikea.jpg", "src": "https://static1.i4u.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_image/images/2018/04/robot-ikea.jpg", "formatted_filename": "robot ikea", "rendered_width": 300, "rendered_height": 250}, null, null]
IKEA doesn't just want to take the pain out of assembling furniture... it wants to eliminate the environmental impact of receiving that furniture. The company recently pledged to offer emissions-free home delivery in five major inner cities (Amsterda...

Designer Xiang Guan redesigned the packaging for IKEA’s Hilver table to serve more of a purpose than packaging. With a pattern printed on it serving as a folding guide, the packaging for IKEA’s table turns into a stool that you can use with said table.

“Around 30.5 million tonnes of household waste are generated in the United Kingdom every year. With this in mind, FOLD is a packaging designed for IKEA’s “HILVER” table that encourages upcycling”, said Guan, who secured a Red Dot Award and Core77 Award for his innovative solution. Unlike most upcycled furniture, the Fold stool comes with a faceted design that looks good in most homes, and the print on it breaks the monotony of the brown cardboard color. The stool uses the corrugated board that comprised the packaging, with just an extra rubber band to hold it in place, making it not only convenient to assemble, but also easy to disassemble and recycle after it finishes serving its purpose.

Designer: Xiang Guan The Ekedalen table can be extended to accommodate more people 

Source: Fast Company Developed after research carried out by IKEA and NASA’s Mars Desert Research Station, the Rumtid is perhaps IKEA’s most ambitious project yet, to design inspired by extreme scenarios and the fragility associated with it, and designed for frugal living.

The Rumtid collection comprises four different product ranges that explore different issues: time, space, water and air, and is based on research carried out by the two teams to “explore the future needs of urban, small space living”.

The collections debuted at Democratic Design Days showcase things like a small, redesigned air purifier, a rather futuristic looking terrarium pod, innovative lighting solutions, and a modular, block-based furniture system that allows you to build furniture from scratch to suit your needs and requirements, resulting in not only a product that is tailor-made to your scenario and needs, but also efficient utilization and recycling of material because furniture parts can be interchanged, and furniture itself can be pulled apart and put together to form something new. “By cutting the tubes into different lengths and clamping them together we can build just about anything, be it sofas, wardrobes, beds, or something else completely,” added creative Michael Nikolic, who led a group of seven designers for the project.

The entire collection should debut by 2020 across all IKEA stores.

Designers: IKEA and NASA Nearly six months after IKEA and Sonos announced their plans to "democratize" music together, the partnership has revealed a teaser of the forthcoming SYMFONISK speaker range. However, the above image -- which doesn't look unlike a stage projection l... 

People seem to have a lot of trouble assembling IKEA furniture, which I never quite understood. But whether or not you manage complete its construction, you can always try to turn it into something else. Like turning it into an R/C plane and just flying it away into the wild blue yonder. That’s what the guys at YouTube’s FliteTest recently did. They wanted to get one of IKEA’s cheap Jokkmokk wooden chairs airborne and they succeeded. Incredibly, it took FliteTest builder Stefan only six hours to make the chair air-worthy. This is more impressive than it sounds, because building an R/C plane that actually flies isn’t easy. Even building one from a kit can be pretty tough.

You can check out the Chairplane’s build and maiden voyage in the video below. If you want to skip the build details, takeoff starts at 7:13. Not only does this thing fly, but it flies well.

These guys are like the modern day Wright brothers since no one has ever used a wooden IKEA chair as an airframe before. They made history. The only upgrade it might need now is a stronger motor so the pilot can sit on the chair during flight. That would be pretty awesome.

Maybe IKEA can start making R/C plane kits like this to sell in their stores, so people can complain they can’t build them either.

[via Sploid]

More Awesome Stuff for You to Click On:

Give in to The Dark Side with The Emperor’s Throne Armchair
Trouble Building IKEA Furniture? These Robots Can Help!
Dad Builds Kid Awesome Star Wars AT-ST High Chair
Northerners Need This LEGO Snowblower
Lose Some Quarters Between the Cushions of This Arcade Sofa 

[via Wired via Geekologie]


Robotic Carpenters Use Power Tools to Build Furniture
Minifigure Mantle: The Perfect Display Shelf for LEGO Minifigs
Sit Your Butt on This Super Mario Goomba Stool
Star Wars Dewback Loveseat: Stormtrooper Sold Separately Assembling an IKEA furniture can be fun once every while. If you need to assemble a lot of IKEA it becomes tiresome, but now there is hope for help. Scientists in Singapore thought a robot how to...