Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Will Go On Sale This Year (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:32AM from the Back-to-the-Future dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing shoes have been officially unveiled. We know they will go on sale later this year, but we do not know the price. "When you step in, your heel will hit a sensor and the system will automatically tighten," explained Tiffany Beers, the project's technical lead. There are two buttons on the side of the shoe that allow you to tweak how loose or tight the laces are. The concept behind the HyperAdapt shoes bring to mind Marty McFly's Nike Mags from Back to the Future, even if they do not look very similar. Nike hasn't yet revealed how the shoes work from a technical point of view but they do lineup with the US patent filed by the company in 2009. The HyperAdapt 1.0 shoes will be exclusively available to users of the Nike+ app later this year in three color combinations -- white, grey and black.

1 of 84 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Every automation is an amputation by sgage · 2016-03-17 10:57 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm personally looking forward to some paper company, in collaboration with Google, coming out with smart toilet paper that automatically wipes your a**.
Do people really want to become brains in a vat and have everything, no matter how trivial, automated?