Amazon just over a year ago launched its first in-home furniture brands, with private labels Rivet and Stone & Beam. This past fall, it began experimenting with a new, more visual way to shop for furniture and other merchandise with its Pinterest-like recommendation service Scout. Now, Amazon is venturing further into home furnishings with the debut […]
View More Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual shopping experience for home furnishingsCategory: Furniture
This shapeshifting clock turns time into moving art
London-based design studio Animaro built a kinetic clock that changes its shape depending on the time of the day. Instead of displaying minutes and seconds with precision, Solstice takes a more meditative approach to time and moves in a relaxing, eye…
View More This shapeshifting clock turns time into moving artGjemeni puts your couch in a box
Gjemeni, pronounced Gemini, is a new furniture-on-demand service from founder Sean Pathiratne. The company offers decidedly tech-forward furniture that comes in a single box and can be assembled by anyone in a few minutes. Pathiratne sees his company as a fashionable and agile furniture company that brings stylish stuff to your living room in the […]
View More Gjemeni puts your couch in a boxAmazon’s furniture lines (Rivet, Stone and Beam), have a *ton* of stuff on sale: Shop sofas, chairs, tables, and more
Amazon really wants to be your one stop shop for everything this year: Not only are they making their way into the markets of designer clothing and groceries, but they’ve snuck into the furniture game, too.
And both of their furniture lines are…
TaskRabbit kicks off Canadian expansion
TaskRabbit is kicking off its Canadian expansion in the greater Toronto area before rolling out in Vancouver in October and Montreal sometime in 2019.
View More TaskRabbit kicks off Canadian expansionTo fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
Noisy open offices don’t foster collaboration, they kill it, according to a Harvard study that found the less-private floor plan led to a 73 percent drop in face-to-face interaction between employees and a rise in emailing. The problem is plenty of young companies and big corporations have already bought into the open office fad. But […]
View More To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells roomsFurniture startups skip the showroom and go straight to your door
Startups making delivery and transport easier than ever are a hit with venture capitalists, so it’s not a surprise that young tech companies delivering home staples — living room sets, dining room tables, couches and more — are raising big dollars.
View More Furniture startups skip the showroom and go straight to your doorAmazon is having a massive sale on Ashley Furniture items like recliners, desks, rugs, and more
Furniture shopping real talk: All the nice stuff is expensive, all the cheap stuff is horrendous, and if you’re shopping online, the added shipping price is always astronomical. You can’t narrow down your options to save your life, so you put off the…
View More Amazon is having a massive sale on Ashley Furniture items like recliners, desks, rugs, and moreThis heat-expanding furniture means you can one day blow dry it into shape
Researhers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Morphing Matter Lab have developed a new 4D printing method that allows objects such as furniture to be 3D printed as completely flat plastic sheets and pop into shape when heated up. Read more…More about M…
View More This heat-expanding furniture means you can one day blow dry it into shapeThis robot can build your Ikea furniture
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who hate building Ikea furniture and madmen. Now, thanks to Ikeabot, the madmen can be replaced. Ikeabot is a project built at Control Robotics Intelligence (CRI) group at NTU in Singapore. The team began by teaching robots to insert pins and manipulate Ikea parts and […]
View More This robot can build your Ikea furnitureWayfair’s Android app now lets you shop for furniture using augmented reality
AR-enabled shopping is expanding again today. This time, online furniture retailer Wayfair is introducing an augmented reality feature in its mobile app for Android that will allow customers to visualize furniture in their own home ahead of purchase, just by holding up their smartphone. The feature, called “View in Room 3D,” was previously available on […]
View More Wayfair’s Android app now lets you shop for furniture using augmented realityIKEA U.S. launches a furniture assembly service from TaskRabbit
You can now pay IKEA to help you put together its confusing furniture. The company announced this morning it’s rolling out the new TaskRabbit At-Home Assembly service in select U.S. markets where TaskRabbit is available, and in six stores in New York and San Francisco. The service is a result of IKEA’s acquisition of the contract labor marketplace TaskRabbit last September for… Read More