From smart trash cans to keyboards, here are 13 smart products to keep your home office humming

Published Jan 27, 2025 9:59 pm ET


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Smart Home Accessories For Your Home Office
Graphic by Abby Kass; photos Amazon

Whether you’re working full-time from home or just prefer having your own office space in the house, a home office can be a hotbed of creativity and productivity. And in the interests of creativity and productivity, we’re always looking for accessories that help make home office life a little easier.

These 13 items, ranging from a state-of-the-art webcam to a smart power strip and an electric cup warmer, will keep you organized and energized throughout your work day. With many of these items on sale at Amazon, now’s a great time to give your home office a makeover with these accessories!

1. Don’t settle for a run-of-the-mill webcam when you can get this high-resolution 4k webcam, which can also track body and hand movements to make your video meetings, presentations and podcasts more dynamic.

>> Buy the OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite 4K Webcam for PC for $159 on Amazon

2. You won’t find many virtual assistants more helpful than the Amazon Echo Pop, which serves as a smart speaker and home device hub and can answer (almost) any question you throw at it.

>> Buy the Amazon Echo Pop for $39.99 on Amazon

3. A fresh scent goes a long way towards improving well-being and productivity, and this fragrance diffuser lets you use up to two scents at once and control schedules and intensity.

>> Buy the Pura 4 Smart Fragrance Diffuser for $39.99 on Amazon

4. A good cup of coffee or tea is a great pick-me-up, and this coffee mug warmer lets you enjoy a refreshing, temperature-controlled drink without leaving your desk.

>> Buy the VOBAGA Coffee Mug Warmer for $19.99 on Amazon

5. This space-efficient, battery-powered trash can makes chucking trash easy — just wave your hand above the can, and it’ll open up for you.

>> Buy the hOmeLabs Durable 2.4 Gallon Sensor Trash Can for $46.74 on Amazon

6. With power surge protection and six individually controlled smart outlets, you can control your plugged-in devices with simple voice commands with this smart plug power strip.

>> Buy the Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300 for $51.99 on Amazon

7. Control this lamp through an app or voice command and cycle through dozens of color and brightness settings to set the right mood for productivity.

>> Buy the Hifree Smart Table Lamp for $29.69 on Amazon

8. Screw these smart bulbs into any light outlet that accepts 60-watt bulbs, and you can control the lighting in your room, setting routines and even synching your lights to music.

>> Buy the Philips Hue Smart 60W A19 LED Bulb 4 Pack for $36.99 on Amazon

9. Speaking of sound, this wireless plug-and-play computer speaker can function up to 10 hours on battery, features advanced noise cancellation technology and can be linked up with other speakers to bolster your video meetings.

>> Buy the EMEET Conference Speakerphone M0 Plus for $67.99 on Amazon

10. Keep your headphones handy and your devices charged with this neat headset holder mount, which comes with 3 USB charging ports and hangers for 2 headphones.

>> Buy the COZOO Headphone Stand for $15.99 on Amazon

11. Take notes, save them to the cloud, and save yourself from mounds of old-fashioned notebooks with this reusable notebook.

>> Buy the Rocketbook Core Reusable Spiral Notebook for $30.74 on Amazon

12. We love the solid feel of a good mechanical keyboard, and this keyboard also comes with a smart display that shows you adjustable color settings, volume and more.

>> Buy the RK ROYAL KLUDGE S98 Mechanical Keyboard w/Smart Display for $36.99 on Amazon

13. Keep the air in your home office clean with this smart mini air purifier, which can be controlled with Alexa and uses a 3-in-1 HEPA filter to clear out everything from smoke particles to pet dander.

>> Buy the GoveeLife Mini Air Purifier for $49.98 on Amazon

Ho Lin

Ho Lin

Author

Ho Lin is a content writer at McClatchy. He has over two decades of experience in content strategy, creation, and development, ranging from subjects such as anime and manga to military benefits, job search advice and AI evaluation. Ho is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Ho also writes both fiction and non-fiction; his books include China Girl and Bond Movies: A Retrospective.

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.