Electrolux

A kettle that stores steam to help kids learn about cooking and energy in a hands-on fashion won the 2015 Electrolux Design Lab in Finland. The competition attracted applications from industrial students located around the world.

Every year since 2003, the Electrolux Design Lab competition has challenged budding stylists and inventors to produce home appliance concepts that may emerge in the not-too-distant future. The 2015 competition is now down to just 35 semi-finalists.

The annual Electrolux Design Lab competition for 2014 has reached stage three of the judging, and 35 semi-finalists remain. We have a look at ten of the entries that caught our eye to give you an idea of the competition so far.

Fancy coming home to find a swarm of flying mini robots doing your cleaning? That's the futuristic picture of domestic bliss envisioned by young Colombian designer Adrian Perez Zapata, whose "Mab" has won this year's Electrolux Design Lab competition.

Entries are now open for the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab competition.

Electrolux has announced the start of voting for the People's Choice Award in this year's Design Lab competition.

The 25 semi-finalists in this year's Electrolux Design Lab competition have now been announced - here are eight that have caught me eye.

Following on from the unmitigated failure of LG’s Internet Fridge, the Brazilian subsidiary of Electrolux has developed an Internet fridge of its own in the form of the Linux-based Infinity I-Kitchen.

This year's Electrolux Design Lab competition finalists have their design concepts featured on the Design Lab home page.

Electrolux has announced the 25 semi-finalists in this year's Design Lab competition.

To address the urban space constraints of the future Electrolux has come up with a couple of sleek space saving washing machine designs that can be integrated into a bathroom.

Cocoon, a machine that creates meat and fish from pre-packaged sachets took out this year's Electrolux Design Lab competition.