Just like a well-tied knot ensures a safe voyage, properly laced shoes can provide you with secure, hassle-free steps. Here’s ...

You have to consider that the factory worker who laced up your sneakers is tasked with lacing hundreds of shoes in a row, so some degree of sloppiness is bound to happen. There are an endless ...

We’ve been waiting for years for shoemakers to develop the kind of self-lacing footwear that once only seemed possible in movies, but it turns out that making smart shoes isn’t all that easy.

Adapt BB is all about a perfect, customised fit. It just happens to achieve that via a self-lacing shoe, like in Back to the Future. The system used is called FitAdapt, and it involves an app ...

Serena Williams got absolutely giddy trying on the newest Nike innovation, the HyperAdapt 1.0. The shoe is auto-lacing, and makes a motorized sound as it tightens the laces for you. "Oh my god ...

When they step into the shoe, a custom motor and gear will sense the tension needed by the foot and adjust accordingly. What Nike calls the "lace engine" is hidden beneath the fabric of the shoe ...