Nike Unveils Self-tying Shoe - The HyperAdapt 1.0 Which Will Go on Sale at The End of 2016.

 US sporting goods giant Nike unveiled on Wednesday its first shoe that ties itself - the HyperAdapt 1.0

It appears that the future is suddenly the present, the self-lacing shoes will be hitting stores later this year (price to be determined). The shoes are called HyperAdapt 1.0, and they’re a pleasantly elegant.

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Nike’s vice president of design, John Hoke,  said that the shoe doesn’t use a traditional lacing system, but rather a battery-powered series of pulleys that cinch the throat of the shoe. When the wearer steps inside the shoe, sensors at the bottom register his or her weight and the position of the foot inside. “It reads if you’re heavy on your heel or heavy on your forefoot.

Once the sensors get a read on your foot position, a series of tiny pulleys will contract the throat of the shoe tightly around the foot by winding thread around a spool. “Imagine a fishing rod,” Hoke says. The wearer can adjust the tightness by pushing on a plus or minus sign on the left side of the shoe. Hold it down for two seconds, and the shoe will loosen fully, allowing increased blood flow and removal. Eventually, Nike says it wants to make the micro-adjustments automated and reactive to biometric data, so they adjust on the fly.

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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"

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It will only be available via auction this year, with all proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, a nonprofit launched by the actor who played Marty McFly in the movie.

Nike says the shoes operate on a battery that will last for two weeks on a single charge. That’s the other catch. Yes, you’re gonna have to charge your shoes, just like you charge your phone and FitBit. But come on. It’s a small price to pay to wear a piece of the future, is it not?

Source:wired.com