Ikea ringing in New Year's with toasting app

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Adding some virtual cheer to your New Year's celebrations, Ikea (via its Swedish ad agency, Forsman & Bodenfors) has developed an iPhone app that lets you and your friends (and possibly that attractive yet nerdy stranger) virtually clink glasses filled with pixellated bubbly. As simulations of real-world activities go, this would seem to lack some of the fun—e.g., the alcohol part. But as the video below explains, the app lets you get drunk on social-media sharing instead.

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