IKEA's Vappeby lineup continues to grow with a new waterproof Bluetooth speaker designed for the shower and priced at just $15 — undercutting all but the cheapest no-name devices. "The fundamental goal with the new product was to offer quality sound in a versatile product that can really be used anywhere," said product design developer Stjepan Begic in a press release.

We’re used to gaming giants like Nintendo suing gamers and indie game developers, but no one expected IKEA, a well-known furniture company, to do the same. The firm issued a cease and desist letter to a single independent game developer, requesting that they make changes to “The Store Is Closed”, a horror survival game set in an Ikea-style store that is currently in development. According to IKEA’s lawyers, some media sites have found similarities between the brand and the game’s settings. This is a violation of IKEA’s copyright.

Starting this fall with its locations in California, the Swedish furniture giant Ikea will sell the means to power your Starkvind (that’s an air purifier) and Stjärnstatus (that’s a fridge) by adding solar panels to the company’s offerings. Thankfully, assembly will be handled by the professionals.

As part of the company’s goal to become fully circular, it needs to work to eliminate the 10% of its packaging that still uses plastic.

Ikea continues to take the invisible approach to its smart home gadgets by camouflaging them as other things. Its new Starkvind smart air purifier is available in two versions, but the better of the pair is cleverly disguised as a small end table, so in addition to removing unwanted particles from the air, you can also use it as storage for unwanted coffee table books and knick-knacks.

An investment group of Swedish retail giant Ikea has acquired forestland in southeast Georgia to protect the land and its diverse ecosystems from development. The Ingka Group, which owns and operates most Ikea stores, purchased 10,840 acres of land near the Altamaha River Basin, the company announced on January 14.

Furniture giant IKEA is set to launch a vegan version of its popular meatballs. Although IKEA already has vegan meatballs on sale, the new dish has the “look and taste” of animal meat. From August 3, UK customers can enjoy the meatballs in IKEA bistros, priced at £1.50 for eight balls. Bags of the new product can also be purchased from the food market, priced at £2.75 for 500g. The meal will be on sale in IKEA restaurants from October 26.

Ikea has said it is planning to repay salaries paid by governments around the world under furlough schemes. It is set to repay nine governments, including the US and Ireland. However, it does not include the UK as although the furniture chain furloughed 10,000 UK workers it did not claim back their salaries from the government.

The furniture brand’s newest set of manuals are designed to stave off lockdown boredom, by teaching us how to build fortresses, caves and wigwams out of furniture and household items

Ikea, having shuttered its stores in response to the coronavirus pandemic, knows what its customers are missing almost more than the furniture – the retailer’s iconic meatballs – and has published a recipe to tide customers over.

The furniture hopes to be 'climate positive' by 2030, and might just achieve that goal.

The world's largest furniture manufacturer is going off grid.

‘We are just getting started’

The furniture retailer is looking at using biodegradable mycelium “fungi packaging” as part of its efforts to reduce waste and increase recycling. It’s no secret polystyrene is devastating to the environment. But, do you know how exactly that is so? According to a fact-sheet provided by Harvard, polystyrene – which is made from petroleum, a non-sustainable, non-renewable, heavily polluting and fast-disappearing commodity – is not biodegradable, as it takes thousands of years to break down. In addition, it is detrimental to wildlife that ingests it.

It will soon be possible to reduce common indoor air pollutants using just a curtain. A mineral-based surface treatment enables this new curtain from IKEA to break down air pollutants when it comes in contact with light. Air pollution is a global issue and particularly problematic in megacities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 90% of people worldwide breathe polluted air, which is estimated to cause eight million deaths per year.

KOTA KINABALU: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has completed the replanting of three million rainforest trees at Luasong in east coast Sabah as part of its efforts to rehabilitate the degraded forest since 1998.

VILSHULT is an IKEA ready-to-hang photo of Amsterdam that has been sold over 427,000 times. After many of my friends asked me why I bought such a “mediocre” photo for my living room, I decided to find out how this photo was made and how it ended up on IKEA’s shelves and in almost half a million households. What I learned was fascinating.

Ikea has come up with a plan to help some of the world's most polluted cities breathe easier. The global furniture giant will start making products out of agricultural waste in India, meaning farmers no longer have to burn it. The initiative, called "Better Air Now," will provide Indian farmers with a use for unwanted rice straw, which is often burned. Smoke from the fires is one of the major contributors to northern India's pollution crisis.

A child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana: A handgun inside a sofa.

Swedish furniture giant Ikea has announced it will be adding vegan soft serve ice-cream to its bistro menu. Taking to Instagram to share the news, it revealed that the frozen treat should be on offer by Summer 2019. The brand shared a picture of ice-cream, captioning it: "100 percent plant-based, 100 percent delicious. Today we are sharing our ambitions to introduce plant-based ice cream to the IKEA Bistro."