But record-setting Toledo turned out to be a costly dry hole, illustrating the fact that even in these days of space-age 3-D seismic studies, wildcatting is still a risky business.

FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

So if you take a chance on GeoEye, you'd better have confidence that federal funding for private-sector satellite imagery won't dry up.

FORBES: In The Beltway Orbit: GeoEye

But now, NeuroSky (a fab(u)less startup of US chip designers and Russian neuroscientists chillin' in NorCal) claims a "breakthrough" in non-invasive neural sensors allowing low-cost, dry (no contact gels) neural mapping solutions to be applied to those things you'd most like to mind control (spouse, voters, TV, game console, cellphone).

ENGADGET: NeuroSky to offer thought control without those pesky brain implants