| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | HP Sprout Reimagines The PC With 3D Scanner, Wild Touch Mat
| | | Microsoft has been experimenting with projectors for years, but HP is bringing a PC to life today complete with a built-in projector and multi-touch capacitive touch mat. Sprout is HP's latest PC design, and it ditches the mouse and keyboard in favor of a system that is built purely for touch interactions. There's a traditional 23-inch touchscreen display, but at the base of Sprout is an interactive touch mat that you use to control projected objects and applications. (Yahoo)
Why This Is Important: Although touch-based PCs have yet to truly take off for the mainstream (Windows 8, anyone?), the Sprout PC isn't meant for average consumers. The manufacturer is gearing the device toward creatives and/or anyone who wants their computer as a gaming and media system.
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| | #2 | Best Buy Top Stock Pick For Holiday Shopping
| | | Best Buy comes out on top of a list of retailers that have shifted more resources into ensuring online deliveries go more smoothly this Christmas season, say Citi Research analysts. (Financial Post)
Why This Is Important: According to the analysts, the retailer has best improved its distribution capabilities, and is in a good position to handle the holiday-issues trifecta: a shorter selling season, a chance of weather problems, and a heavier delivery schedule.
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| | #3 | Google X Prepping Pill To Detect Cancer
| | | Google X is working on another moonshot: a nanoparticle-filled pill intended to help doctors identify and prevent fatal diseases. (PCMag)
Why This Is Important: The pill is at least five years away from use, but it falls in line with the firm's glucose-monitoring contact lens.
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"What we're hoping to do, is these little particles go out and mingle [then] we call them back to one place, and we ask them, 'Hey, what'd you see? Did you find cancer? Did you see something that looks like a fragile plaque for a heart attack? Did you see too much sodium? What'd ya see?' " -- Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at Google X
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