IKEA engineers are pretending to live on Mars to help them design better furniture

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IKEA engineers are pretending to live on Mars to help them design better furniture

Really.
By Rachel Feltman Yesterday at 3:36pm
 

But will there be meatballs?

IKEA

At face value, it sounds delightfully goofy—and totally useless: Swedish furniture company IKEA, known for creating impossibly cheap (and often incredibly chic) flat-pack furniture, has sent several of its engineers to live in a Mars simulation. Yes, the brave men and women who designed your beloved EKTORP sofa and GJÖRA bed frame are hanging out at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, playing at space colonization.

http://www.popsci.com/ikea-mars

[Frank Cannon]

I always thought that Ikea engineers were living in a dump judging by the quality of their work.