Hard as it may be to believe, but a decade ago, shareholders in REFR were being told (while happily lapping up every word) that laptop and other flat-panel displays of the future would be powered by SPD technology.
No, really.
SPD, which to this day has a switching time measured in seconds, was being touted has having the potential to become the standard for what was at the time a very hot technological development field -- the ability to make affordable flat screens that weren't dim and flickering.
Never mind that SPD came (and still comes) exclusively in a monocolor blue. (Attempts at other colors are an overdue topic for another post.) Never mind that switching times were atrocious. Never mind that they weren't even close to even a VGA (640x480) resolution. No, SPD was going to be a bona fide flat-panel display technology, because Bob and Joe said so, and that was the end of it.
Amazingly, even to this day, REFR still lists computer displays as a feasible use for SPD, even as OLED technology is poised to make SPD even more thoroughly obsolete.
Technology may be in constant advance, but some hype never changes.
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