Is AI The Future Of Work Accessories Or Just A Gimmick? Find Out

By Prashant Bora

When Artificial Intelligence emerged, it changed the face of the electronics industry globally. This impact was especially prevalent on electronic work accessories, such as computer hardware or peripherals. This has been particularly important to ensure the growth and scalability of the sector, which has largely remained stagnant in terms of development in the last few decades.

If we take a close look, considerably less innovation or development efforts have gone into modernising computer peripherals critical for digital work since they came out — and with AI’s unprecedented efficiency, this means an entire horizon has opened up to bring work accessories up-to-date with what users require today.

While the capabilities of AI could not be understated, many feel that its impact on different sectors has been exaggerated. While it is futile to speak about other sectors, the future of the global electronics domain has been set with this new-age technology’s effect.

For instance, the first aspect that differentiates electronics accessories is their efficiency — a differentiating factor for AI at, and integrating this technology with electronics hardware ensures replicating the same in performance metrics. Additionally, aspects such as energy efficiency, intelligent decision-making, pattern recognition, and automation indicate that work accessories will greatly benefit in the future, leading to a time when intelligent products will dominate work desks worldwide.

The future is what the requirements are

To understand why AI is the future of work accessories, we must look inward to see which peripherals we use. A laptop or desktop is a given, followed by a mouse, keyboards, printers, headphones/earphones, surge protectors, speakers and other relevant ones depending on particular requirements. If we look for immediate requirements, mouse and keyboards are the first accessories that we use regularly in a prolonged period. A similar aspect of all these electronic accessories is that they have been subject to very little R&D to enhance their efficiency over the years. While periodic innovations in the form of gaming mouse, and keyboards have been introduced to the market, they also do not give the competitive edge in a work setting to enhance efficiency, or productivity in comparison to their usual peers, and this creates a glaring gap of technological advancement that can be addressed comprehensively with AI.

The impact of AI on these accessories is not stationary, or stagnant, and goes well beyond good-to-have features. The impact of AI begins with product designing, where modern ergonomic designs can be created with relatively less hassle. While limited hardware impact can be attained, the entire focus is achieved in the technological aspect, which can directly translate to unprecedented enhancement of productivity and efficiency.

For instance, an AI-integrated mouse comes equipped with a dedicated AI button, OCR, Voice Typing and Translation buttons that seamlessly reduce man-hours while enhancing productivity. From meeting notes and work summaries, the integrated AI helps to draft detailed and accurate legal documents, advertisement copies, content writing, SWOT analysis, and business & project proposals — all within the blink of an eye, opening up time to do critical things.

Furthermore, AI integration also helps to adopt a smart approach towards work, from creating images to scanning documents — efficiency is raised to an unprecedented limit. These modern requirements of work that previously needed different technological support can be easily done with one single product, and at a considerably reduced time means global adoption will lead to comprehensive growth of the space.

Gimmick or robust future?

At present, AI development is at a nascent stage. However, with the limited capabilities of GenAI, we are already witnessing what can be accomplished by integrating it with different products. However, the general scale of this integration is only beginning, and the impact on these end users has been massive. As AI developments continue, the industry is poised to integrate more advanced AI assistance in computer & work peripherals, benchmarking it as the standard practice to use more advanced solutions than today’s non-AI integrated accessories. 

It is also important to understand that as the world’s work ethic transforms rapidly towards a more efficient manner, the usage of AI-integrated products will rise exponentially. If we look at any workplace irrespective of size, the core focus has been on raising productivity while reducing man hours, an aspect that can be addressed holistically with AI integration in the accessories. Imagine when we do not have to depend on different electronic products for functioning, as the enhanced functionality enables us to ensure smooth work allocation and completion than ever before.

What’s the future?

Irrespective of the type of digital work, the future lies with Artificial Intelligence. For a country such as India, where the service industry remains prevalent, this means that massive adoption of AI-integrated computer peripherals will be taking place in the coming years. 

Relevant brands in the space have also identified this trend, as several new electronic appliances like AI-integrated mouse, keyboards, or printers are being introduced to the market that boast of not only efficiency but also productivity as a whole. The end users are showing signs of consistent adoption, an aspect that will lead this transformation to a global paradigm shift by the end of this decade.

[The author is the MD & CEO of OTEK (A Bora Multicorp Venture)]

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