Posted on 04-07-2008
Tech 4 O Accelerator Women’s Hiker Watch
Filed Under (Sports) by admin

Binding: Sports
ASIN: B000J01064
Manufacturer: Tech 4 O
Release Date: 2006-10-15
Average Customer Review: (From 12 total reviews)
List Price: $59.99
Amazon Price: $42.38 (4 new available)
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Features

  • Stylish women’s hiking wristwatch with built-in accelerometer for gauging distance
  • Produces highly accurate readings of user’s speed, distance, and caloric expenditure
  • Adjustable step counter accounts for walking 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

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Accelerator™ Speed and Distance Watch SeriesHikerGreat for monitoring your daily speed and distance performance on the trail.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, Tech 40™ 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 results is a watch that “knows” 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.

  • Time/Daily Alarm/Date
  • Countdown Timer
  • Speed
  • Dual Time Zone
  • Distance
  • Back Light
  • 7 Day Memory
  • Pedometer Function (Step Counter)
  • Stopwatch

Silva Tech part number 2831310

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.

Customer Reviews

Pedometer watch by Morris Brown
I like this product. Even though the instructions seem overly complicated, the product itself is pretty simple to set and use. I like that I am able to count calories, steps, distances, and much more. The watch is very functional for everday usage or for specific training purposes.

Works for me! by S. J. Lakey
There were three things I was looking to buy: a watch, an alarm clock, and a pedometer. I started with the pedometer (pm), as I was anxious to begin an exercise routine, and found this watch. Now, I have all 3-in-one for a good price. I agree about the sleep funtion on the pm - not convenient. And the fact that you have to keep your arm swinging to get a step count on the pm means I can’t carry much on that arm - again, not convenient. However, these are my only complaints about the watch. You get a lot of functionality for the price, and while the instructions are a little daunting at first, it’s nothing you can’t deal with if you just take it step by step. I love being able to track my time, speed, distance, and calories for my morning sprint - very motivating.

On a side note, I did buy the men’s watch for my hubby, who just wanted a time piece. He does complain about the short strap (he’s 6′2″ and about 280) and the fact that he’s always accidently pressing one of the buttons. I’ve not experienced that.

Exercise Enthusiast With So Little Time by Wilberta Gould
I would have rated the product 5 stars as far as quality, but the reviews that I read berfore ordering were correct - the instructions were complex for setting up the device. As one comfortable with computers and am not intimadated by things such as this I took a chance. I could have figured the instructions out if I had enough time, but it just was not worth it to me - I would rather be out walking or hiking than trying to figure it out so I returned it.

Great watch! by 34Kirby1991
I love this watch. So much better than wearing a pedometer. The only bad thing I can think of to say about it is the face is a little too big for my wrist, but I am a petite person. I wear it whenever I run or hike and after adjusting the sensitivity it works perfectly.

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