The Kindle is about to have some competition. The Readius is the size of a cellphone but a 5-inch screen can be pulled from it to read books, magazines, newspapers, et cetera. Plus, and here's the real value added over the Kindle, it is both durable and flexible. From The New York Times:

Mr. O’Rourke of the Flexible Display Center likes the look of the new generation of supple screens, but he also likes their toughness. “Some of them we’ve beaten with hammers, and they still run,” he said. “No one could do that with a BlackBerry.”

And this is just the beginning, O'Rourke believes. "It’s an exciting example, but there are going to be a slew of other devices coming soon, too,” the paper quotes him as saying.

Read the whole story and see a picture of the Readius here.