The Imagine singer was brought back to life using digital technology.

 

He is seen urging people across the United States to support a campaign by charity One Laptop per Child to deliver tough, solar-powered laptop computers to the world's poorest children.

 

Lennon's voice and video image tells viewers: "Imagine every child no matter where in the world they were could access a universe of knowledge.

 

"They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want.

 

"I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way.

 

"You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine, you can change the world."

 

Donors can chose to either pay $199 (£135) to buy a laptop for a child in the Third World, or $399 (£270) to buy one for a child in the Third World and another for their own child.

 

Lennon was shot and killed as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, arrived at their Manhattan apartment building on December 8, 1980.

 

Ono approved the One Laptop per Child commercial, which was launched on Christmas Day and screened for free by broadcasters.

 

The video clip can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/olpc and laptops can be bought from www.amazon.com/xo

 

The One Laptop per Child Foundation, created in 2005, is a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and started producing the 'XO Laptop' late last year at a manufacturing cost of less than $200 per machine.

 

 

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechn...fter-death.html

 

 

It's a bit weird seeing and hearing him talking about laptops :mellow:

What a strange advert!!!

That's exactly what I thought. They would have to get permission from Yoko, I guess, to use him, but not sure why him to be honest and not someone else.

Very weird and bad taste, IMO. I hate every time when the image of a dead person is used, charity or not. It is manipulating... :puke2:

Very weird and bad taste, IMO. I hate every time when the image of a dead person is used, charity or not. It is manipulating... :puke2:

 

Yoko gave permission for it.

 

I think that says it all really.

 

But then again John Lennon did invent the iPod (sort of....)

 

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