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Give Laptops A Chance : John Lennon Resurrected 28 Years After Death For TV Ad

Dec 26, 2008, 9:26pm

Give Laptops A Chance : John Lennon Resurrected 28 Years After Death For TV Ad

Imagine, John Lennon makes a television commercial for charity -- 28 years after his death. With the approval of widow Yoko Ono, and through the use of digital technology, the former Beatle urges people across the United States to support a campaign by "One Laptop per Child" to deliver tough, solar-powered XO laptop computers to the world's poorest children. [...]

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