We have some video conferencing equipment at work from Neat - an all-in-one Zoom Room setup, that has an HDMI port for direct connection of a device. When the equipment detects a signal, it turns on ...

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While you might only use your HDMI port to connect audio and video devices, it can do a lot more. Here are some gadgets that leverage the port in unique ways.

Lenovo's "Tiny" line is one to consider. Monitor: if you go HDMI, there's plenty of active HDMI cables, or HDBaseT extenders. Again not free. USB: I do see 50 foot active repeater USB cables out there ...