We first got an official look at the Intel Compute Stick earlier this year, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In one of those ?But wait! There's more!? kind of moments common at trade shows, one of the good folks at Intel that was previously showing off a few upcoming NUC systems pulled a tiny device from his shirt pocket and revealed the diminutive Compute Stick.

If you?re unfamiliar with the Intel Compute Stick, it's essentially a fully-functional, low-power, Atom-based system?with memory, storage, and an OS--crammed into a form factor not much bigger than a large flash drive. Though Intel has had their hand in similar devices like the MeeGoPad in the past, the Compute Stick we'll be showing you here is an actual Intel-branded and marketed product that will be sold by the company in the U.S. and many other countries around the globe, similar to its NUC line of small form factor systems...