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To: Sport8721 who wrote (10)	12/4/2013 2:12:51 AM
From: N. Dixon	Respond to of 42

J. I'm going to paste your message on the other board, which is more appropriate for this discussion. Message 29263140 This thread is just for updates on licensees products and the other one is for investors on things like SEC filings. I just had a chance to glance at it and I'll post my thoughts tomorrow. Looks like they've added another patent.

To: Sport8721 who wrote (10)	12/5/2013 11:25:54 AM
From: N. Dixon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42

J. The other thing I thought about last night was how when I first saw the first demonstrations, neither the mirror nor the EPD made me think of "smart glass." I think calling their web site "SPD-smartglass" is just for the "glass" products. The core foundation of the patents is the "suspended particle device" and all those three words describe it exactly. So I reread the Land patent just to see what we started with and now what we have, and it's an amazing journey. This is an abstract from 1997, outlines the challenge that Bob Saxe faced. SPIE: 1997 Developments in SPD Now I saw the prototype mirror and display where we had gotten it to work. From then to now it's just been refinement between licensees' development of products. So it stands to reason that the products developed by E-Ink and the rest had to rely on 32 years of work by Saxe and the company he formed. It was 1965 when Saxe started his work and formed Research Frontiers. Not sure some of the newer investors quite understand what it is Research Frontiers does. This article will be helpful in understanding Saxe's work. It's never been about glass alone. It's what SPD does when it's on glass that is the "smartglass" product. But this is not a "flattering" article, in fact it lobs the very same criticisms at REFR as are being alleged now by the same individuals who are short the stock. Not a new phenomenon to us. Forbes: As Clear As... That's why I've told people, look at what licensees and their strategic partners are doing with SPD. That's our income. That's our manufacturing. That's why we early investors took the chance that this could actually be commercialized and why we were over the moon 15 years ago. It's the physics part we did. That was the hard part. Same is true for the first products. The film manufacturers and end-product licensees have reached critical mass. We did our work. Now we get paid the royalties from now on out. That was always the plan. And here are the PRODUCTS, proof that throughout all the criticism and attacks. Bob Saxe did what he set out to do. Subject 59325 I think "smartglass" is what threw people. We are the "smart" in smartglass. That's the difference.

To: Sport8721 who wrote (10)	12/14/2013 4:55:16 AM
From: N. Dixon	Respond to of 42

J. Just found Carl Lampert's quote from the 2000 Annual meeting and he mentioned the shelf pricing, ebooks etc. I'll check but I don't think E-Ink had their patents yet. (2) The informational display market is growing at an explosive rate. The combined market for flat-panel displays and cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) is $43 billion, and this market is almost divided equally between the two. Dr. Lampert noted that projected revenue growth in the flat-panel industry is tremendous. Revenue is projected to grow from approximately $20 billion in 1999 to $73 billion by 2004. He also mentioned several products with growth potential that should be of interest to RFI and SPD technology: Notebook computers-projected growth rate $8 billion to $20 billion. Dr. Lampert stated that he expects to see a large capacity change in 2001 as a large number of manufacturing facilities are being built. Mobile phones-projected growth rate from $1.4 billion to $16 billion. Dr. Lampert noted that displays for mobile phones were becoming very significant-particularly those that are light weight with low power consumption. Print media-as an editor, Dr. Lampert stated that he is involved in this $100 billion publishing market. This market consists of books and newspapers with a revolution going on in the electronic book area. Electronic books enable you to load several novels onto a slim electronic book, reload new novels, stock market information, etc.. Dr. Lampert noted that we are beginning to see some e-Books coming into the marketplace. As a result, low-cost displays are very important for the growth of the e-Book market. Other growth-oriented products noted by Dr. Lampert were low information, large banner displays for expressways and grocery stores, and low-cost handheld computers which would enable employees to electronically change shelf pricing in grocery stores. Dr. Lampert noted that electronic pricing already exists in Europe and is viewed as a time-saving device for employees.