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: Tricky to set up
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Figuring out how to get around all the modes is a bit tricky but once you do it enough it comes naturally. use the manual for this like i did. as for the accuracy the jury is still out and i need to work with it alot more. this is my first pedometer watch and while i like the functions, i DON'T like how it is counting steps while i am sitting in a chair for short spurts at work with just a little movement of my arm, THAT is annoying. It does this regardless of the pedometer sensitivity. My accu-split eagle works better in that aspect. The display is very clear but its shiny face causes glare issues.Customer Review: Good, but bad reflection
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
The watch is good, but there it has a bad reflection.
It's hard to see the top part of the display. You can't see
the distance display.
Is the other TECH40 watches the same. The round plastic has
a really bad reflection that makes it hard to see.
Customer Review: tech 4o watch
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Wsatch and pedometer are sightly complicated to use...requires some effort. Overall product is Good.Customer Review: satisfied
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
watch works well if u dont to spend an arm and a leg on gps watch this is for youCustomer Review: Maybe I got a Lemon?
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
I have this watch sitting on my dining room table waiting to be returned after a few months of use.
First of all, I received it as described and it looked like it would work as promised.
As the other reviewers mentioned, the menu takes awhile of study to get down but once learned, it's not so hard to get through. I really liked the menu item that saves data by day, week, etc. for entry into my running log. It also took some time to get the stride down but that's because I don't live near a track or measured running area but once I got an average stride length, it seemed fairly accurate. Unfortunately, as one reviewer said, it doesn't seem to compensate for my "bad run" days when my stride and pace is slow or my "good run" days when I'm kicking butt. But it's good as a ballpark figure. It's motivating.
PROBLEMS: First off, the glare from the crystal made it very difficult to see in the wrong light -- which was most light. Second of all, the crystal was somehow badly scratched a few times (by me) while wearing it and I didn't even notice it touching anything so it seemed to be made of some sort of very easily scratched glass (although I historically am tough on glass crystals). So the display by now is very difficult to read and then the battery simply goes dead.
I think I may have gotten a bad one but it seemed like a great idea and was much less expensive than a Garmin or Nike system. I'll send it back at some point but I think they charge according to their web-site (which wasn't very user friendly for me either).
I wish I would have known about their Trail Running version -- It seemed to have anti-glare crystal and a compass for the same price and included all of the other models. I haven't completely thrown in the towel on this but I feel sort of "once-bitten, twice shy" about this purchase.