Other pieces of hardware that can be important are camera's. That could be in the form of a digital photo camera or digital video camera. Which then allows you to include both images and video to your work.
Scanners can also help you to add images that you have hard copies of images you would like to use. They can also be used to add text from a hard copy to your work without the need to retype it, providing you have software that will do that.
Keyboards are also essential in entering text, which even despite shifts in computing power, text is still one of the most effective elements.
