Baby Boomers...Games People Play...

. . . Baby boomer earnings. The main reason behind the 124% rise in earnings for Unilens Vision (UVICF.OB) in the first half of fiscal year 2005 appears to be royalty income from Bausch & Lomb. Bausch & Lomb licenses one of the company's multifocal designs. The strong demand for multifocal lens is another baby boomer stock effect (which will continue for quite awhile). With multifocal contact lenses, aging baby boomers don't need glasses over their lenses for close-up reading. Recently, Unilens acquired the Aquaflex and Softcon EW soft contact lens product lines from CIBA Vision Corporation, the eye care unit of Novartis AG.


. . . The games people play. And increasingly, they're playing online. To better take advantage of the online gaming trend, Wasinger Tech, which operates a portal (www.ewoss.com) that attracts millions of online users monthly, is licensing Pay for Play software from CYOP Systems (OTCBB:CYOS). CrediPlay, CYOP's licensed software application, is an online transaction platform that is based on charging a fee for each game of skill played over the Internet.
(From www.SmallcapRecap.com)

Thalidomide...e-China...Digital Appetite...

. . . A recent episode of the medical drama House featured thalidomide as a life-saving antidote for a dying boy. It underscored the turnaround of the drug from its fearful reputation to one of hope in the treatment of myeloma and its potential for treating AIDS, tuberculosis, and other illnesses. Thalidomide is one of the products that has helped power Pharmion Corporation to fourth quarter net sales of $51.5 million in 2004, compared to $11.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2003.

. . . E-China Profits. China Expert Technology (OTC Bulletin Board: CXTI) saw profits soar 245% for the 4th quarter of 2004 and increase 191% for 2004 as a whole. A good deal of that revenue came from its participation in China's e-government project whose goal is to establish a national electronic government system.

. . . Consumer appetite for digital music, photography, video and the like, has become ravenous. This digital gluttony craves high-capacity, high-security flash storage cards. One of the winners in this supply and demand scenario appears to be SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) the original inventor of flash storage cards. SanDisk recently introduced the Cruzer Titanium hi-speed flash storage drive that it claims is virtually indestructible and designed to physically protect the valuable data of business and power users.