Last night Walkers (i.e. Pepsi) ran a TV advert during peak-time announcing an offer of a free "Walk-o-Meter" (pedometer) for anyone visiting their web site. Predictably all i got for the first 10 minutes was "document contains no data" followed later by a polite message (see picture). i'd like to have been a fly on the wall of that machine room :-). Trying again this morning appears to have been successful, though only after receiving several "error in application" messages.. the slashdot effect in action! Anyway that leads me onto the next problem - understandably there's a limit of one walk-o-meter per household and i've three blighters who desperately want one.
Managed to complete my order after a couple of failed attempts. Even managed to get a .NET style error message on my browser. Not sure that's meant to happen!
Consumer reports had a good report on pedometers (only available to subscribers) that showed that many of the ones they tested were off by up to 20%. I would suspect that the quality of a free one probably isn't anything to write home about. They recommended the freestyle tracer as their 'best buy' at $20 a piece.
Good spot, Paul.
I'll be able to count my steps as I walk backwards to Christmas.
Received mine the other day.....
Did about 6,500 steps the first day without really trying. Not sure it's all that accurate, but it gives an indication of movement.
I would be very grateful if you could let me have one of your free step o meter.
Thank you
i want a walk o meter but i don't know wear to get one
thankyou
i got one of them but i thought it was a bundle of s***