Tech 4 O Accelerator Men's Running Watch
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Description of Tech 4 O Accelerator Men's Running Watch
Measure your performance at the track or gym by recording distance, speed and those all-important calories burned. Looking for a way to gauge your progress in running or exercise walking, but tired of inaccurate and limiting pedometers, battery killing GPS and annoying food pods. For discriminating consumers who crave more than the typical pedometer can offer, presents the accelerator watch series. Far more accurate than a typical pedometer that relies on a pendulum to count steps, the Accelerator series incorporates advanced accelerometer technology. The difference between short and long strides and records, calculates, and displays all measurements via the wrist watch - no need for a foot pod. Accelerator doesn't just stop at counting steps, it also provides distance, speed, and calories burned during exercise so you can track your progress.Whether you're a hardcore adventure hiker, an avid runner, or simply looking to count your doctor's recommended 10k steps a day, an Accelerator Series watch fits the bill. Advanced accelerometer technology provides highly accurate readings of a user's speed, distance, and caloric expenditure via a simple wrist watch sensor, eliminating the need for funny looking foot pods or belt clips. Accelerometer technology is 95+% accurate, and much more dependable than traditional pendulum based pedometers. GPS-based running products are very expensive, complicated, and aren't reliable for indoor training or under heavy tree cover. The Accelerator Series is the perfect combination of accurate readings, simplicity of use, and stylish design.
Speed & Distance Pedometer
- Highly accurate step counter with adjustable sensitivity allows users to tune the sensors to their individual walking style. Doctors everywhere are now recommending 10k steps a day to maintain a healthier lifestyle.
- All sensors are contained in a simple wrist watch. That means no funny looking mechanical belt clips our funky shoe pods.
- Get off the beaten path! Free yourself from mileage markers at the track or trail! Pick a new route every day! The Accelerator can automatically distinguish between running and walking, and can calculate your average speed, distance, caloric expenditure, and total exercise time.
- The Accelerator has a delayed step counter feature that differentiates between ancillary movements and actual steps. This feature provides users with the most accurate results by delaying calculation until it has registered 10 steps in a row to eliminate false step counting.
- The smart scheduling features allows users to set the pedometer to automatically start/stop counting steps at a predetermined time every day, so you'll never forget to turn it on.
Personal Profile
- This feature allows users to customize their watch to their specific body type and walking/running style. No matter how fast or slow, tall or short, each user can personally enter their weight, average walking stride, and average running stride in order to ensure accurate results.
- Hikers can easily account for loaded pack weights.
- Runners can dial in the stride length to account for varying terrain and/or speed workouts.
- Quickly adjust weight and stride lengths as conditioning improves.
Chronograph
- The accelerator series? powerful stopwatch features allow users to record exact results to within 1/100th of a second for up to 50 laps and a total time of 24 hours.
- Although the watch has several advanced ways of calculating speed and distance, the old-school chronograph still has a place and purpose.
Countdown Timer
- A simple countdown timer can come in real handy at times. Set it for 10 minutes as a quick reminder. Use it to monitor your running/walking pace and set speed goals. Alternative Time Zone
- Great for those that travel! Allows users to set and display an alternative time zone along with the current home time display. Never lose track of time no matter where you are.
Daily Alarm Mode
- We are all creatures of habit in our daily routines. The daily alarm is a great way to set a daily reminder or morning wake up alarm.
How the Technology Works
The underlying technology in the Accelerator Series Watches is an accelerometer sensor. Accelerometers are used to measure acceleration. Originally developed during the Space Race to replace outdated gyroscopes, accelerometers can be found in a diverse range of today?s products such as automobile air bags and tilt meters. In the Accelerator watch, a user's movement (acceleration) produces varying degrees of electric current within the sensor, allowing the watch to detect different levels of acceleration, and therefore measure speed and distance.
Another way to explain how an accelerometer sensor works is to envision a marble in a bowl. When the bowl is moved, or accelerated, the marble inside will roll (accelerate) along the bottom and sides of the bowl. When the bowl is accelerated faster, the marble will move a greater distance up the sides. The accelerometer sensor in the Accelerator Series watch acts like an electronic marble in a bowl. With every step forward, the wearer of the watch (bowl) is accelerating forward. By measuring the acceleration of the "marble", the software inside the watch can then calculate the wearer?s speed and distance.
The Competition
There are really only a few different ways to calculate the speed and distance of human-powered, on-foot travel. The first was basic math, next came the mechanical pedometer, followed by satellite tracking GPS years later. Mechanical pedometers are cheap and abundant, but also highly unreliable. They operate on a simply pendulum clicker that relies on the walker?s hip movement to count steps. Unfortunately, mechanical pedometers end up counting a lot of non-walking movements and assume that walkers are making consistent and repetitive steps.
GPS technology is impressive, but also expensive, complex, and not always ideal for outdoor activities or indoor training. Satellite signals can be lost in heavily forested areas, indoors, or behind large buildings and receiving signals eats up batteries. When a good signal can be found, often the device does not receive info often enough to account for twisty backcountry trails.
The Future
The Tech 4 O Accelerator Series fills the void between old mechanical pedometers and the overkill of GPS. A simple, yet versatile, wrist-watch design can provide extremely accurate speed and distance data in all conditions.
Sports reviews of Tech 4 O Accelerator Men's Running Watch
Customer Review: Awesome watch + Pro Tip!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This is a great watch for the price. The functions are convenient, and the menus are fine once you understand them. It is not going to be as accurate as a GPS watch, but it will work indoors and under heavy trees where GPS signals are weak. Calibration is a must!
The main reason for my review is a little easter egg I have come across:
Steps to use Chronograph or Countdown Timer with exercise mode running:
Enter exercise mode (Lap/Reset from home screen)
Start exercide mode, make sure running man animation is going
Walk around for 10 seconds, check to make sure your steps are being counted
Go back to home screen (Lap/Reset) and confirm the running animation is still active
You will now be able to move freely between all modes, with the pedometer still activated. If you can even enter and leave exercise mode while standing still.
If you simply activate exercise mode and return to the home screen, you can see the running animation shuts off, meaning the watch has stopped counting your steps. If anyone knows an easier way to achieve this, please leave a comment.
Customer Review: Awesome Watch!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I've used many running watches before but they've all been clunky and impossible to use. My brother recommended I try the Tech4o (Tech-four-oh)Accelerator because it is really slick. I'm glad I did because this is by far the easiest watch I have ever used.
Its not like other watches that make it a miserable chore to control the features. All you have to do is fine tune the Pedometer just the way you like it and you're off and running! It's that easy! Plus, I never have to measure out routes anymore because the watch measures distance for me. Its so accurate that I can just go run and choose my route as I go!
I love the way it tracks my Calories burned on each run. Its damn accurate for the average runner too. No more using lousy Calorie calculators and adding up tons of figures in my head. With this watch I wanted to go out and exercise just because it was no longer a hassle to keep track of everything!
Take it from me, a one-time couch potato who is now an avid runner. The Tech4o Accelerator is a great investment for any health-conscious person looking to have all the right gear!
Customer Review: Easy to use, good in price - super stop watch!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I tried quite some pedometer and stop watch combining devices, among others from Puma and Casio. Let me say: none of the more expansive devices came even close to what this little sweetie can do!
Distance measurement is as accurate as a pedometer can be! My accuracy is close to 98%! Well, this only works if you run the same speed every time. But that's part of the calibration phase (that is really important): learn your stride width first and then adjusting it is really easy!
I cannot say that using (or: setting up) the device is difficult or that the manual is inappropriate (as some users here stated)! To my mind: using this device is as easy as can be - we are talking operating a watch with a whole bunch of functions, memory access, etc. The menu structure is well though of and it is easy to operate with 4 buttons!!
I can only recommend this item! For this price (and also for the double price) you will not get a better device that combines a pedometer and stop watch...
Customer Review: ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
Awesome product! I was fed up with waist pedometers that would say I only took 200 steps when I had just walked 3 miles. Thankfully I found this item which Im so in Love with. It took me a couple of times of reading over the manual to understand how this item works but I am so happy that its accurate and easy to understand. I noticed that all of the negative reviews are things that are easily correctable if you read the manual. Its not a easy watch to set up but once you read the manual and follow the instructions its a awesome watch which offers a lot of different features. I can not stress this enough if you are considering buying this watch make sure you take time to read the manual, its not the type of watch you put on and its ready to go. It takes a good amount of time to get this watch to be accurate. I would definitely recommend this item to everyone who is wanting something more accurate then a waist pedometer.Customer Review: great watch, very usefull
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
The good: great watch, counts your steps very accurately (although you may need to set your perssonal profile at the beginning)
i find the watch very usefull in my day-to-day life.
i run pretty often and have gotten accurate results each time.
The bad: even though the step counter is accurate, i realize now after i bought the watch that it does not acctually measure distance but rather serves as a calculator that you could easily find online.
i know you aren't seeing the diffrence so i will explain it:
if you do not input the exact length of your regular step AND running step, your distance and calorie results will be inaccurate.
The bottom line: this watch is a SUPERB device and has personally made my life much easier and for that i give it 5 STARS. A great buy that i haven't regreted for an instant.