Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Running Watch

by Tech 4 O

Product Features

• Stylish women's running wristwatch with built-in accelerometer for gauging speed
• Produces highly accurate readings of user's speed, distance, and caloric expenditure
• Adjustable step counter accounts for running style, stride, terrain, and pack weight
• Built-in stopwatch and countdown timer; powerful 7-day, 10-week memory
• Clock with 12/24-hour time, date, and daily alarm; 1-year warranty

Product Description

Product Description

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.

Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.2 x 6.1 inches ; 12.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J03KGM
• Item model number: 2831330
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,452 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty but frustrating, September 11, 2007

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Linda L. (NH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Running Watch (Sports)

I was really happy to find more of a feminine looking pedometer watch in this. The thinner band and pink color is nice. However, I mainly purchased this to count my daily steps, see how many miles I "stepped" and how many calories I burned. The frustrating feature is that it constantly shuts itself off from counting the steps if you are not moving for a certain period of time. You have to always be thinking of checking it and turning it back on. It's not working for me in that respect. I am unable to see a full day's computation of steps. I had another watch pedometer that did that beautifully except it was big and clunky and only came in black. If this brand could change this feature, it would be perfect for my purposes.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works great!, June 7, 2007

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B. Boyd "txbabs" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tech 4 O Accelerator Women's Running Watch (Sports)

I have been using this watch for about 1 month. The distance measurement function is surprisingly accurate. As other reviewers have mentioned, you must take the time to read the instructions and do the stride length measurement. I have only two gripes - the size of the readout is small, particularly the upper numbers (I used to use a Nike running watch that had enormous numbers, so it's a hard transition). For that reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. The second gripe is probably a RTFM issue, but the pedometer randomly turns itself off when you're stationary for a while (at least it seems that way to me). Basically, the thing works as advertised.

54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars product to complicated for use, May 14, 2007

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molly (symsonia, ky usa) - See all my reviews

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This product was way more difficult to use than it needed to be!! I am a runner and needed something with all info on one screen. If I wanted to get my speed, I had to push buttons. If I wanted time, push more buttons, and if I wanted distance, I had to push even more. This was nearly impossible running 8 mph. It might work for a walker, but even so, I found a much easier product for everyone. The Garmin 101 was about $10.00 more, but amazing. It shows everything on one screen, it has gps, and as soon as you turn it on, it's ready to go!! The screen is bigger, but not heavy. I run with it, put it on the stroller for a walk, and even ride a bike with it! It starts in feet until you get to .1 of a mile, then it goes by miles!! I wish I had this review while I was shopping!!