Electrolux is announcing a new round of its annual global competition, which is created to find and support the emerging talents in the area of the home appliances design. Electrolux Design Lab 2011 is encouraging industrial design students and recent graduates in this area to submit their works for a chance to a six-month paid internship plus prize money and have their developments on the avant garde of the global technical progress. This year, the contestants that have not started working in the field are asked to present solutions revolving around the ‘intelligent mobility’ theme and reflecting the company’s commitment to ecological technologies coupled with perfect design.

Lipton Brisk Iced Tea has launched a new phase of the campaign featuring clay puppet characters, which represent A-list celebrities of the modern culture. This time, the brand has ‘invited’ Ozzy Osbourne and Danny Trejo to ‘star’ in the promotion, which encourages consumers to live their lives in a brisk way. The recruited stars didn’t actually appeare in the videos—instead, they gave their voice and ‘bodies’ to the clay puppet characters, featured in tongue-in-cheek web promotion, which includes short films and a competition on Facebook.

Audi fans can now take a trip down memory lane through the brand’s 100-year history with the new heritage section on its www.audi.co.uk website. Visitors to the site can take in the sights of iconic Audi cars, observe Vorsprung durch Technik in action, re-live the thrills and spills of the brand’s motorsport record, and explore how four companies became one.

Have you gained some extra pounds eating during the previous weeks of the festive season? If you are not a super hero or don’t know the secrets of becoming slim even when eating chocolate cakes, you are among those who have. Each New Year’s Eve we give commitments, most of which are revolving around vital things like getting fitter and looking better. Usually, alcohol doesn’t help achieve these goals, but this time the support comes right from famous rum brand Captain Morgan.

adidas has kicked off a new a viral campaign, which is focused on ‘boot kidnapping.’ In mid-December, a ‘thief’ stole a bunch of sport shoes adizero from the ‘temple’ of the brand, its HQ in Germany, and took them to some secret location. Now, adidas and several sport celebrities are asking public to help them find the poor shoes to literally save them from shoe death (the fast sneakers just can’t be stored in gritty basements).

On January 6, Apple® opened the Mac® App Store℠ with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in just one step. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

The well-known brand Huggies, which impressed the public with its trendy denim-style diapers last year, has released a new commercial from the ‘Huggies: Little Movers’ series. The new addition is about an adventurous journey of a little boy, who rocks a usual boring party. The hilarious advert, which reminds adults of how fun the life of a baby can be even within a limited apartment space, was developed by the creative team from JWT New York, directed by MJZ‘s Fredrik Bond, with visual effects by MassMarket.

Nike and TomTom have collaborated to create the Nike+ SportWatch GPS. The new running watch, unveiled on January 5 at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, will provide athletes with the most dynamic and motivational running experience in the world thanks to its unique functionality, beautiful design, and direct connection to www.nikeplus.com, the world’s leading running community with almost 4 million members.

To demonstrate the performance capabilities of its new the 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor presented to public at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Intel has created an engaging action-adventure video ‘The Chase,’ which is more like an action movie. The 2-minute long spot features a lady, who is trying to escape from two bandits in the virtual space of a computer. The heroine is changes programs like a cars, jumps from one window into another, leaving her chasers no chance of catching her with the much-desired envelope.