The Asus Chromebit, announced by Google today, packs a lot of computing power into a little itty bitty form factor and a sub-$100 price point: Plug this stick into any display with an HDMI port, like most big-screen TVs nowadays have, and suddenly you have a Google Chrome desktop at your disposal. 

It has uses limited only by your imagination. Like:

Upgrade an existing PC by plugging this into the monitor. 

Use it for art projects or to build interactive displays using cheap TVs. 

Google cites the example of a retail store that can use it to manage all of their digital signs, changing a sale on shorts to a sale on umbrellas instantly once it starts to rain.

It has a swivel head so it'll fit into more nooks and crannies, and you can use it with Bluetooth mice and keyboards. It uses a super-small ARM processor of the kind you normally find in a cell phone, so it doesn't really heat up. It has 2GB of memory and 16GB of storage, like most other Google Chrome devices. It even comes in multiple colors, for the style-conscious.