Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Running Watch
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Description of Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Running Watch
The newest in running and walking technology, the Tech 4 O Women's Accelerator Runner Watch accurately measures speed, distance and calories burned by using an advance accelerometer. No foot pods or belt-clips necessary. The Accelerator Runner Watch even works under tree cover, unlike GPS systems.Once you set your personal profile, you can adjust your personal stride length to differentiate between faster tempo speed work and slower recovery days. Whether you are a morning walker or an avid runner, the Accelerator Runner Watch is easy to use and will help you reach your next fitness goal.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 Running Watch
Customer Review: Complicated pedometer watch - good for running
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
This watch is very complicated to set up and learn how to use. I read the whole manual before figuring it out (even though I'm usually very good with technology). Just not very intuitive. The manual tells you to go to the tech4o website to figure out the stride settings; however, there is no obvious information on the website. The biggest disappointment with this watch is that it's only about 80% accurate for walking (underestimates the number of steps you take). Nevertheless, it's about 98% accurate for running, which I was I bought it for. The pink color is a little brighter than I would have liked.Customer Review: It is OK and does not job
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I chose this item to substitute my Nike+ sportsband that I loved but broke it. This Accelerator Running Watch does the job but it is A PAIN to calibrate and involves an obscure exercise of step counting and determining the length of your stride. Once you are done with that, it is pretty accurate and shows you all you need to know while you are running. The drawbacks are that you almost need to stop to see all the numbers and that unlike Nike+ you can't upload your results on line and graph them and see your progress over time. But it does the job otherwise.Customer Review: didn't last a year
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
The pedometer is the reason I bought this watch. Accuracy was OK. to be expected for the price without GPS. Easy to read numbers. Complaints are the face scratched very easily and made it hard to read the numbers. The face plate popped off after 4 months and had to glued several times. Very complicated to figure out. Last but not least the band was awful. The color does stay pretty for long after you sweat it turns peach on the band which looks terrible with the pink face. It always looked dirty.(bleach did not help)Customer Review: Watch has been returned
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I bought the watch as a Christmas gift for my mom who wears a pedometer all the time to make sure she is getting in all her steps. I thought this would be a great way to count her steps and have the time all in one stylish watch. She tried it for a couple of days but was never able to get it to count her steps accurately. She had a few people look at it with no success. The watch is great for the runner who wants to see how far they ran, but not for the everyday person who just wants to count steps.Customer Review: I hate this product
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I hate this pedometer. Although I consider myself technically literate, I am at a loss to follow the--oh so many--divergent paths setting this up requires. I have bought several pedometers in Italy, and I have understood instructions written in Italian, French and broken English. I have always been able to follow the underlying logic in whatever language, but this one defies any path of programming a reasonable person would be expected to know. I can easier track my daily steps by counting them as I walk. And forget ever finding the distance covered or calories spent. Sometimes I accidentally stumble across the distance if I push just the right buttons in the right sequence, and when the moon is aligned with Jupiter, and the dog howls at night.
Yes, I have been to the online "help" demonstration. It is even less clear than the multi-folded, needlessly complicated instruction booklet that came with this useless piece of plastic. Beware when the instruction booklet is larger than an atlas and then tells you to go online for help. This means that the manufacturer knows the thing is needlessly complicated.
If you want to spend more time figuring these instructions out than actually working out, then this product is for you. Also, I agree with the previous comment about the girlie pink band. It just reminds me how stupid the whole marketing plan for this product is (let's make something so complicated that only a programmer could program it and then design it with a Pepto-Bismol pink band). Yeah, that's the ticket.
Not only have I totally wasted my money, I have also wasted several hours trying to figure out.