CES: Skiff Bends eReader Rules
Another auspicious CES 2010 debut is likely to be the Skiff eReader, a product backed by Hearst, the newspaper publisher, previously known as FirstPaper. (“Skiff”? Where are they getting these ugly names?) It’ll have a wildly flexible 11.5″ black and white screen, as the photo above shows, differentiating it significantly from Kindle and its other thick-skinned competitors.
Here’s more on Skiff’s flexibility from PCWorld: “How does it pull off this contortionist’s trick? The Skiff’s 11.5-inch touchscreen, unusually large for an e-reader, utilizes a thin, bendable sheet of stainless-steel foil rather than glass-based displays favored by other e-readers.
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