Friday, January 7, 2011

Casio Pathfinder PAW-5000

CES 2011. The Casio's Pathfinder PAW-5000  has been named as an International Consumer Electronic Shows Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree.  



Casio Pathfinder PAW-5000. The Casio Pathfinders (or Protrek in other areas) are series of Casio wristwatches designed for the outdoors-mans, specifically for hiking and trekking. With its triple sensor technology which includes a digital compass, altimeter, barometer and thermometer, making this the all-in-one tool necessary for high rugged and outdoor use. 

The PAW-5000, is an ana-digi Pathinder which has a second hand that acts as a compass needle, altitude and barometric pressure differential indicator with a digital display to show data as values. An automatic light glows to display the time and data when the watch is angled towards your face.

The battery the powers watch recharges itself via solar power. With a full charge, the watch can run a full five months without recharging. The PAW 5000 is also equipped with Multi-Band Atomic timekeeping which allows the watch to synchronize it time with Atomic clocks around the world. In addition the watch also has a stopwatch function, a countdown timers, can display the times for the different timezones around the world with the city codes of 29 cities to select from. The date and month which is displayed in the LCD displayed is pre-programmed to provide the correct date till the year 2099.

About Casio. Casio Computer Co., Ltd. is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters  in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio  is best known for its calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches. Casio released it first G-Shock watch in 1983.

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