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 ...

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 ...

Check out the video of [Pentland_Designs] Shoelace locks after the break. For more shoe-tech, check out these LEGO self-lacing shoes, or this teardown of Nike’s self-lacing offering.

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 ...