This is the perfect watch for mountain climber and also hiker as it have all the necessary triple sensor capability like altimeter, barometric /temperature and digital compass sensor build in to the watch. The best part of this model is with all the sensors integrated the thickness of the watch remain slim at 11.5mm. It is also design to last for many years thanks to the build in solar panel which Casio call it “Tough Solar” and in theory you no need to change the battery as long there are light source to charge it. So far with my experience with other Casio model with Tough Solar after using more than 2 years the battery charge still remain high level even without putting any effort at all to charge it, just regular wearing. All this thanks to the intelligent Power Saving capability which I recommend you not to turn off which is on by default that will turn off the LCD display after idling for some time without proper light source to charge it. By the way this watch comes with a large LCD number display good for easy reading and 100 meter of water resistant which more than enough even wearing it for swimming and also Electro-luminescent backlight readability in low light. This model come with resin strap or if you prefer metal strap then go for PRG-110T-7V that come with titanium strap and will cost considerately more.

The triple sensor is the highlight for this watch with the integrated Digital Compass that will help hikers plot the locations and with memory store to help keep record. The Barometric / Temperature sensor will provide a good forecast about the weather trend with a line graph to show the trend of pressure for the pass 24 hours. So if you see the trend is going down which means the weather going to be bad as pressure level is lower and possible of rain is very high. Finally the altitude sensor which will keep track of the progress to know how high is it from the sea level. All these capability makes this watch ideal for hikers and highly recommend.

The only cons for this watch is the price, it is not cheap it cost about 170.00 USD for the resin band and about 250.00 USD for titanium strap. Remember for this price you get a lot of features that other watch don’t have and also a solid build quality. I suggest cheaking several shops or online store if you plan to buy because the price difference can be a lot.

Overall Rating: 5 out of 5

Now, the ideas have started taking more serious interest as source from Inhabitat reveal that the Japan will be investing $21 billion in such development. The solar space power plan will provide 1 gigawatt of electricity wirelessly. So this project actually take 1 step further when compare with the concept of orbital elevator in Gundam 00 where they have build the elevator from Earth and all to way into the  space. So no wire attachment is require to transfer power, very innovative! So it will beam the power from space back to Earth. Well not sure whether the concept was influence by Gundam 00 since it is a very popular anime series in Japan.

Anyway the huge project will be work by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and industrial design company IHI Corp mainly. Expect to have the prototype ready for test run by 2015. If this method proved to be successfully then it will definitely help with the growing energy needs in Japan and also encourage other nations to move into space solar power plant development.