Lenovo Promotes IdeaPad Yoga With Bond-like Short Film

To promote Lenovo's new IdeaPad Yoga (a hybrid tablet and laptop that can be configured, yoga-like, into various 'modes' or 'poses' including bending backwards), the brand released "The Pursuit," a film-like short (that's the director's cut, above) that was shot in Hungary. The Bond-like heroine's mission: "Find the Yoga, uncover the code, make the switch. But with the opposition in hot pursuit her skills and the dynamic moves of the Yoga will be put to the test."

"Yoga was actually the code name," says Lenovo CMO David Roman, "but the code name was so logical — it was just a perfect fit — that it ended up becoming the real name. And it was justifiable to have a name [as opposed to a number] because it really is a new category."

The creave name stands in contrast to Lenovo's "ThinkPad Tablet 2," for example, which may get renamed. "We are looking at our naming overall," Roman says. "We don't feel that our naming is up to snuff. It can be confusing. Taken product by product it makes sense, but put them together it doesn't."