The Skiff Reader brings two new technologies to the large-scale e-reader market: a touchscreen e-ink display and “silicon thin-film-transistors on a flexible steel substrate”.

 

This looks pretty epic. It also has free 3G. It would be amazing if it had color e-ink and a Kindle app.

 

 

I think this might be the start of the next generation of tablet tech. Imagine a non-backlit iPad that will flex instead of crunch, but has the full power of a laptop.

Edited February 2, 201114 yr by ydoaPs

AFAIK that was announced just over a year ago and no progress has been shown so far. They were bought out by News Corporation in June and nothing has happened since.

 

Plastic Logic's QUE looked similar, but they cancelled that project recently.

 

If someone develops a color e-ink screen with rapid response time (several times faster than current Kindles), then made it available in large form for viewing documents, I would buy it immediately. I have a Kindle 2, but the screen is too small for reading anything other than ordinary books -- textbooks, scientific papers and PDFs are very inconvenient. The Kindle DX has a large screen, but is greyscale only.

 

Of course, at that point you're going into iPad territory.