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Believe it or not, figuring out how many steps you had taken and how fast your heart was beating required two different products before Sportline cooked up the 960 sports watch.

To the geek who also likes to get out and exercise, there’s no way to do it except with gadgets in tow. Sportline added to the gaggle of fitness electronics on Wednesday with the Sportline 960 sport watch, the first to integrate both an accelerometer for tracking steps and a heart rate monitor to keep track of your body while you’re at it.

While both pedometers and heart rate monitors are already common place in sporting goods stores, Sportline claims that no other company has been able to successfully integrate them into one product before. With the 960’s pedometer, users can keep track of steps taken, distance travelled, calories burned, speed, exercise time, and maintain daily and weekly records. With the heart rate monitor, they can get heart rate readings in one touch, since Sportline’s 3Beat Sensor can acquire a reading to ECG accuracy in three beats or less. They can also define target heart-rate zones to keep chugging along at the desired pace, or set alarms for too high or low of a heart rate.

Besides all the exercise features, the Sportline 960 also handles basic watch functions like displaying the time, day, date and month, plus dual time zones and five daily alarms. For the track, there’s a chronograph with resolution to 1/100 of a second, a 50 lap counter and a countdown timer.

The Sportline 960 is available immediately for $99.99.