Tomb Techies: Paper iPads and iPhones for Qingming Jie

Looks like the living aren’t the only ones pining for Apple products in China: Tomb Sweeping Festival (Qingming Jie) traditionally involves making offerings – usually in the form of paper money and food – to the deceased; but the hot items this year for the more tech-savy, status-seeking of souls are paper iPads and iPhones.

The China Daily reports that shops down in Guangzhou are “selling sacrificial offerings have put paper versions of Apple products on their shelves. A package of two iPads and four iPhones in different colored paper goes for 6 yuan at a shop named Yongxinghang. A MacBook also costs 6 yuan. The names of the products printed on the package closely resemble the printed names of iPhones and iPads, but the brand is mingwang, or "the king of the dead.”

Shops in Malaysia are taking it a step further with paper iPad packages that include firewires (for posthumous syncing) and a whopping 888 gigs of storage (space enough, we’re sure, for the all those free MP3s you can download in paradise). No word yet on if paper iPad 2s (or Android tablets, for that matter) are available, but one thing is for sure, we’re simply dying to see what kinds of apps these babies can run.

And if you want to go the DIY-route, click here to learn how to make your own paper iPad.