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welcome to top 5 where we countdown all kinds of things I'm your host I as actor for some tech companies getting you interested in their products is really easy Apple and Google enjoy lots of attention but there are other companies who desperately want you to notice them sometimes they even turn to endorsements by famous people today we're counting down the top 5 strangest celebrity tech parents at number 5 Ashton Kutcher and Lenovo back in October of 2013 lenovo chaps Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer yeah really the first product he helped produce was the yoga tablet to pro a 13 inch android tablet Kutcher said that he thought the yoga tablet to fro would be best tablet in the world we reviewed it here at cnet it was actually pretty good with a unique design that included a projector built in at number 4 is Lady Gaga and polaroid in 2010 Polaroid named a new creative director and her name was Lady gaga released that's her stage name at CES 2011 holroyd and Lady Gaga introduced a number of new products under the grey label brand including a pair of glasses with a camera built-in and a mobile printer the glasses never made it past the CES demo but that mobile printer did make it to market as you know the partnership was super successful and we all carry Polaroid products every day okay so that didn't happen reports surfaced in October 2014 then Lady Gaga and polaroid were no longer working together at number 3 Robert Downey jr. and HTC 12 million dollars that's reportedly the amount of money HTC paid Robert Downey jr. to be the face of HTC in 2013 down he was and is still red hot in Hollywood thanks to his fantastic performance as Tony Stark and Iron Man in a number of movies the thing is Robert Downey jr. is to iron man in a cici's ads were definitely interesting to use a word but HTC is still having a hard time competing with Samsung and Apple even with the celebrity endorsement other companies like Samsung and TCL both paid to have their products place in Marvel movies samsung even showed off in Avengers watch and Tony Stark's gadgets at CES 2015 maybe Potter placement would have been a better bet for acc at number two alicia keys and blackberry yeah so this happened Alicia Keys was named the global creative director for blackberry in January 2013 at the announcement keys talked about a scholarship program to help women and technology this odd combo seemed to start seriously Keys told people she was a blackberry exclusive then in February a tweet appeared on Keys Twitter account that red started from the bottom now we're here no big deal right yeah except the tweet said it was posted via twitter for iphone keys claimed her account was hacked anyway this stint lasted about a year and now we're here what time is it I don't have my watch but i think it's Twitter time i asked you guys what do you think are the strangest text celebrity endorsements Alex reminded us that at one point they were television ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Isaac chose a recent but amazing one Gary Busey for Amazon fire TV thanks for your feedback and on to number one and the number one weird parent Oprah and Microsoft tour Microsoft the company took a big risk introducing its own computer with the surface tablet it chose to partner with the incredibly influential Oprah Winfrey and Oprah named the surface one of her favorite things she said the surface Microsoft's first tablet feels like a mercedes-benz to me people yeah then a wonderful tweet goddess a love that surface have bought 12 all ready for Christmas gifts what's the problem it was sent via Twitter for iPad that does it for us remember if you'd like to get an idea of upcoming top fives or even have your tweets read on air follow me on twitter i'm at ayahs thanks for watching and we'll see you next time