A Nike sports boot is pictured during an event to unveil their latest
innovative sports products in New York on March 16, 2016. AFP PHOTO /
Jewel SAMAD
US sporting goods giant Nike unveiled Wednesday its first shoe
that ties itself, the HyperAdapt 1.0, which will go ...
on sale at the end of 2016.
on sale at the end of 2016.
Sensors at the heel level activate the lacing
when a foot slips into the shoe. Two buttons on the side of the shoe can
be pressed to loosen or tighten the lacing.
Nike calls
the feature "adaptive lacing." Nike's star designer Tinker Hatfield
said at the New York presentation that the company is working on other
innovations that will provide automatic adjustments.
Nike
launched in 2015 a limited-edition shoe with so-called "power laces"
that adapt to the wearer's motion, the Nike Mag, inspired by the film
"Back to the Future, Part II".
It will only be
available via auction this year, with all proceeds going to the Michael
J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, a non-profit launched by the
actor who played Marty McFly in the movie.
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