Just set up the Amazon Echo I bought on prime days. Now the government can just listen to what goes on inside my household. It's cool I for one am going to embrace our new computer overlords! lol
The daily news briefings are also pretty cool in the morning. I like to use mine for that. I believe the default is NPR but Omaha.com now has an Echo skill that plays the top 5 headlines in Omaha as opposed to from NPR.
knapp, you can use if for general questions about things, to give you daily news briefings, check the weather, create shopping lists for you, look stuff up on the internet, pretty much anything.