It is not what you think. Not a new herbicide, GM seed, or piece of equipment. Nor is it new software, GPS, or animal ID. It is a weather alert radio. We have had it for over a year, and not gotten it out of the box until tonight. Mrs. KF is much less concerned about catastrophe on any level than I am, and is content to sleep without fear of tornado, flood, or air raid. As we are in the fairly unusual position of being in a severe storm watch for the nighttime hours, I thought it would be a good idea to get it out of the box and figure it out. The idea is, should our county be issued a warning, either tornado, thunderstorm or flood, this radio will get a signal that will set off an alarm on it, waking us up so we can take cover. The government has urged all of us to have these radios for several years. They are now adding things that will set them off, like missing children alerts(called "Amber" alerts over here, after a missing girl of that name) and some national security issues as well. Hopefully we have set it to the correct frequency, now we supposedly can sleep more soundly with the knowledge a storm can't "sneak" up on us in the middle of the night.