Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Fitness Watch
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Description of Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Fitness Watch
The newest in walking technology, keep track of your strides with the Tech 4 O Women's Accelerator Fitness Watch. Accurately measuring speed, distance and calories burned by using an advance accelerometer, the Accelerator Fitness Watch doesn't require a foot pod or belt-clip and works inside and under tree cover, unlike GPS systems. Reach you next fitness goal and let Tech 4 O help with the Accelerator Fitness Watch.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 Women's Fitness Watch
Customer Review: good watch for running
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I bought this watch to use for running....it had the two things I was looking for, a measurement for distance and a timer. The distance is very accurate and it's simple to start both the timer and distance, and to go back and forth between them. I read a lot of reviews that said this watch was too confusing and had too many features....there are a lot of features that I don't use, but I didn't find anything confusing about it. It looks big on my wrist, but I only wear it for running/exercising so the look was not that important to me. I've had it for a few months now and have been very happy with it. I love being able to know exactly how far and how long I've been running when I go out. The distance feature tells you how many steps, but also says in miles how far you've gone.Customer Review: Great little watch!
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I'm training for my first marathon, and I didn't want to shell out the cash needed for a GPS watch, but I wanted something to track miles more or less accurately. This watch does the trick! It was not hard at all with the online help to program it. It has massive memory capabilities for storing your workouts and such, but I don't really use that feature. Using the chronograph and the pedometer at the same time can be a bit tricky (I usually start the chrono first to get an accurate time for my runs, then start the pedometer right after). While obviously not as accurate as a GPS watch, this little number will give you decent enough mileage counts for what it's worth. Mine have never been off more than 1/10 of a mile.
In all, I love it, and take it on every run I go on!
Customer Review: Great sports watch
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I just started running a few months ago and this is my first accelerator watch. It's not as accurate as a GPS, but you can't beat the price. I love all it's functions and it wasn't as hard to figure out as I thought it would be (of 'course I used the online manual which I read on other reviews is a lot easier to understand). I haven't even used all it's functions but the ones I use the most are: step pedometer, calories burned, mileage, time, timer, alarm. Great buy!Customer Review: I like it...
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I'm not sure why there were complaints about the difficulty in programming. I did almost all the programming without consulting the directions at all, and this is my first pedometer watch. I have not used it long enough to comment on the accuracy of the counts, but we're off to a great start!Customer Review: Pretty Decent...
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I bought this as a gift for an avid outdoors woman. She hasn't complained one bit. The watch takes some getting used to but with time she came to love it. The pedometer is a little tricky and the instruction booklet takes a solid 30min to get through, overall good product and worth the money.