She turns lights on and off and prints out shopping lists in a YouTube demo video.



From Hexus:

A Toronto based firm specialising in cloud platforms for the Internet of Things has made a video demonstrating the use of Microsoft's recently launched Cortana personal assistant controlling devices around a home/office. NeoWin reminds us that these home automation feats can be achieved, exclusively by Cortana among virtual assistants, due to the Microsoft assistant's extensibility and communication with third party apps.

Onion says that its hardware and software "make it quick, easy and economical to connect anything to the web". The team at Onion have made a video showing how it can utilise Cortana to control both a lamp and a printer at its offices. It's just a case of asking Cortana to make use of these objects in your natural language. The demo shows that Cortana could be very useful beyond the usual calendar, alarm and search queries people often use the likes of Apple's Siri and Google Now to undertake.

  Microsofts Cortana interacts with the Internet of Things