iPad 'Dummy' Display Models Go on Sale

If you're hankering for an iPad but don't have a few hundred dollars to spare, you can now purchase "dummy" display models of the tablet computer online for $49.

The all-plastic replicas, found at iPadDummy.net, contain no electronics and do nothing except look and weigh about the same as the genuine article.

As for why somebody would exactly want a fake iPad, well, the world is one's oyster. "Use it as a serving tray, decoration in your room or prank your friends with it," the iPad dummy Web site suggests.

The "fooled you!" of the bogus iPad aspect seems to be a popular one on the blogosphere, with Gizmodo proposing a hoax on grandma.

The real-deal iPad is certainly versatile in its own right, and iPadNewsDaily has put together seven novel uses for the device , including as a tool for developing human-dolphin communication.

Overall, plunking down on a fake iPad seems eerily similar to buying a mannequin, but to each his own.

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