Nike Announces Self-Lacing Sneakers – Hyperadapt 1.0
Written by wdkxwp on March 17, 2016
Yesterday at the Nike 16 conference the shoe company unveiled a new sneaker with power lacing technology:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Cyv3cvIxY]
This is what Nike had to say:
“Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It’s about accelerating toward it,” says Tinker Hatfield. “We’re able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody. Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”
I find that pretty funny considering the idea was first introduced in 1989 in the Back to the Future II movie! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM]