Have you ever gone to tie your shoes in the morning and thought, Man, this is a big ol’ waste of time? Chances are you haven’t, but you can’t deny that having self-lacing shoes to impress your friends ...

— -- One year into her tenure working inside Nike's Innovation Kitchen, where the company's designers dream up the future, Tiffany Beers was given an assignment: Figure out how to make a real, ...

Chances are, when you take a fresh pair of running shoes out of the box, you don't give the laces much thought besides maybe admiring their bright, perfectly un-dirtied hue. And hey, that's ...

Shoe technology is a little noticed field of development, but it brings in a lot of cash. Just ask Nike or Adidas. Dedicated customers will line up for each new shoe offering, and athletes follow shoe ...

Nike is officially discontinuing its line of Adapt shoes, its futuristic sneakers designed to emulate the self-lacing ones made famous by 1989’s “Back to the Future Part II.” What’s more, according to ...

Auto-lacing shoes are here, finally. And pretty well right on schedule. Thirty years after Back to the Future II sold the world on the concept in a fictional 2015, a startup called Powerlace in St ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now that everything from toasters to light bulbs can be wired to the internet, why not connect your shoes too? Nike has already done that when ...

At its “Innovation for Everyone” event today in New York, Nike unveiled high-performance footwear and apparel for athletes, a fleet of items for consumers, and more features on its Nike+ app. But the ...

But this is not just novelty Back to the Future–type stuff. Fitness-tracking and customized midsoles are becoming increasingly common, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones and 3D printing, and the ...

In 2016, Nike debuted its HyperAdapt 1.0, the first multipurpose performance shoe to feature power lacing. Since then, the brand has released a handful of auto-lacing models, including the updated ...

If you're like me, you've been tying your shoes for years and probably feel pretty good at it by now. Yet for active pursuits—specifically while out on the trails—it's good to be familiar with more ...