{"id":27,"date":"2004-05-26T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/blogs\/ein2\/2004\/05\/26\/pedometer-panic-2\/"},"modified":"2004-05-26T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T22:40:27","slug":"pedometer-panic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/2004\/05\/26\/pedometer-panic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pedometer Panic 2]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omron-healthcare.com\/site\/index.cfm?TID=29&amp;MID=44&amp;ART=120&amp;BID=3&amp;SID=1&amp;LG=2\" title=\"The Omron HJ 112 at Omron Healthcare in Europe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archives\/ein2\/images\/omron_hj_112.png\" style=\"float: right;border: 0px;padding: 5px\" width=\"185\" height=\"229\" alt=\"European version of the Omron HJ 112\"><\/a>I did some intensive investigation on the Omrons, including phoning back to North America.  Apparently, they produce different versions of the same model for different markets.  Canada, for example, has a metric version.  Europe, too, has a metric version.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omronhealthcare.com\/enTouchCMS\/app\/viewDocument?docID=1531&amp;parntCatgId=34\" title=\"Omron HJ-112\">Omron HJ-112<\/a> (or see <a href=\"http:\/\/quickmedical.com\/omron\/fitness\/pedometers\/hj112.html\" title=\"Fuller description of Omron HJ-112\">this description<\/a>) I so lusted after is not available yet in Canada and won&#8217;t be available for an additional two months.<br \/>\nWhen I was in Canada earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelloggs.com\/\" title=\"The cereal people, on the web\">Kellogg&#8217;s<\/a>, the makers of Special K cereal, had just started a promotion whereby you could collect tokens and send away for a Special K pedometer and start your own personal 10,000 steps campaign.  It was accompanied by all manner of media promotion with television ads and newspaper articles about the 10,000 steps campaign.  The same promotion has now hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelloggs.co.uk\/pedometer\/index1.asp\" title=\"Get your red Special K pedometer in the UK\">United Kingdom<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/usa\/news\/current\/conpr_05062004.html\" title=\"McDonald's news release about adult Happy Meals\">McDonald&#8217;s (USA)<\/a> is getting into the act.  Is a free pedometer enough to get fitness afficiandos into McDonald&#8217;s? Apparently so, at least for <a href=\"http:\/\/reluctantwriter.typepad.com\/heregoes\/2004\/05\/mcdonalds_for_y.html\" title=\"Free pedometer?  I'm there!\">some people<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnyway, I digress slightly.  With some more phoning around, I discovered that the Omron HJ-112 model is available in the UK and is more Ein-compatible in appearance, with its translucent aqua case (see story image).    I managed to track down a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.white-medical.co.uk\/\" title=\"White Medical, Omron Specialist\">distributor<\/a> here in the UK.  While they predominantly supply medical professionals, they will take personal orders as well.  All of the recently flurry of media attention has meant that people have been going out and snapping up pedometers left, right, and centre and they didn&#8217;t actually have any cheaper pedometers left, but still had a few of the HJ 112.  So, for only &pound;27.03 (incl VAT), I will shortly be the proud owner of my very own Omron HJ-112.<br \/>\nNote to self: secure this one to self more firmly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translucent aqua Omron HJ 112 pedometer, here we come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[265,270],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e1n","tag-omron","tag-pedometer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}