Even the dead want the latest gadgets

Qingming is coming pretty soon and apart from the standard luxury assortments that the living burn on the fateful day as offerings to their dead ancestors and relatives, the latest and hottest paper replicas come in the shape of iPhone 4s and iPads.

While we mere mortals are limited to a maximum of 64GB of storage in our iPads, the dearly departed get iPads with a healthy 888GB worth of storage in theirs which is not only is immensely useful for storing movies, songs and pictures for all eternity but also tremendously auspicious to boot.

The iDevices for the afterlife offer ridiculously good value for money as will with a 888GB iPad going for RM9.80 and the iPhone 4 just RM2. Not bad considering the devices are made completely out of paper anyway. On top of that, the paper iPads and iPhones comes complete with USB cable so the dead can sync their data with their paper computers.

For the uninitiated, Qingming is celebrated by the Chinese as a way to remember their deceased ancestors by visiting their graves and burial grounds. It is tradition for the living to clean the grave of their ancestors as well as offer worldly gifts to the dead in the form of paper replicas that are “sent” to the other side by way of burning.

We’re wondering now what mobile service will the dead be using to surf the web on the 888GB iPad.

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