In Barcelona, during the Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC 2025), Lenovo rolled out two innovative products: the AI Display and the AI Stick. The two products aim at integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into already existing PCs, transforming their lifespan and usability.

Lenovo AI Display: Smart Visual Interaction

AI Display is a design monitor featuring a 32 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) Neural Processing Unit (NPU). With this, the monitor can execute AI on its own, and hence, other non-AI PCs it is connected to can execute AI apps without cloud services. It features one where it automatically tilts, lifts, and adjusts orientation depending on the position of the user for maximum ergonomic comfort and user experience.

Lenovo AI Stick: AI Power Anywhere, Anytime

AI Stick is another small, USB-C Thunderbolt-powered offering with 32 TOPS NPU. Plug-in AI accelerator allows users to upgrade their existing PCs by providing them with the level of processing power needed to support AI loads such as on-device Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-accelerated graphics. For heavier loads, AI Stick also may be plugged straight into a source of power in order to yield maximum performance levels akin to external GPU setups.

Penalties of Extending PC Working Lifespan

AI Display and AI Stick are fulfilling the growing demand for extending PCs' working lifespan with existing hardware at its optimum:

  • Cost-Effective Upgrade: It is possible to add current machines with their AI capabilities at a cost-effective price without buying new hardware, as a cost-effective means to make new AI devices accessible.
  • Environmental Sustainability: Hardware updation minimizes waste related to electronic components, being one such measure towards environmental sustainability.
  • Democratization of AI Technology: These devices make AI technology democratic by enabling numerous individuals to take advantage of AI-powered applications with no economic hindrance.

Potential Applications

Use of AI in retro computers by such machines provides several alternatives:

  • Enhanced Productivity: Speech recognition, auto-prediction, and AI-based intelligent process automation can be utilized to enhance the efficiency of the workflow.
  • Creative Tools: There are graphic and video editing tools based on AI, which can be used for creative work without the need to spend money on equipment.

Considerations and Future Directions

Even with such concepts, there are several issues that need to be sorted out:

  • Performance: The ability of these machines to perform intense AI operations will dictate their activities and usage implementation.
  • Market Acceptance: Customer acceptance of such peripheral-based innovations will decide the success of these ideas in the market.

Lenovo AI Display and AI Stick are newer means of bridging legacy computer systems and AI. External powered AI functionalities offered by the devices can revive life in old PCs, imparting extra functionality to their users without system-level updates. Such ideas in development, thus, can really introduce availability of AI, advance technology, and avert wastage.

Conclusion

Lenovo's AI Display and AI Stick are an expression of future-proofing existing PCs with artificial intelligence. With the plug-and-play, low-cost AI processing ability, the devices could greatly prolong the life of older computers, keep them from becoming trash drawer permanents, and bring AI-powered programs to more customers.

While there are barriers to be overcome, including education in the markets and software assistance, Lenovo's vision represents a step of breaking through into the future of computing AI. Provided they get it right, these devices have the capability of leading us down to an entirely new level of AI peripherals that will redesign the upgrade and interaction that we have with our computers during the age of AI.