Uber-cool power laces take us Back to the Future

[Schlup]

Remember those uber-cool power laces that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II?

Well, a San Francisco geekette named Blake Bevin has managed to design a fully-functioning, auto-lacing shoe - complete with servos, battery and an Arduino micro-controller.

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"Inspired by 'Back to The Future II', this project is less 'practical' than 'proof of concept', but hopefully it'll tide you over until Nike comes out with something more polished," explained Blevins.
 
"Operation is quite simple: step into the shoe and a force sensor reads the pressure of your foot and activates two servo motors, which apply tension to the laces, tightening the shoe. A touch switch reverses the servos."

[Sir-diealot]

Neat, but some of the ugliest shoes I have ever seen.

[Schlup]

Yeah, but those are chick shoes, I bet Commander would love them!  Anyways, if Nike picked it up they would make some better looking shoes!

[Sir-diealot]

Yeah, but those are chick shoes, I bet Commander would love them!  Anyways, if Nike picked it up they would make some better looking shoes!

Those wern't chick hands and if they were I hope I never meet her in a dark ally. EWW

[Schlup]

Those wern't chick hands and if they were I hope I never meet her in a dark ally. EWW

Those were Blake Blevin's hands, the inventor and she is female.

[Monkey_Grill]

This would break in a real world scenario.

[Sir-diealot]

Those were Blake Blevin's hands, the inventor and she is female.

Wow talk about ugly woman's hands. She will never get a job advertising gloves:)

[Schlup]

This would break in a real world scenario.

Why do you say that?  Especially since these are just prototype shoes, I'm sure they would have to do way more integration and toughen it up before they took it to market.

[Monkey_Grill]

Totally exposed electronic system. Would fry when you step in a puddle.

[Katarn79]

I'm still waiting on the hoverboard.

[Samarium]

I'm still waiting on the hoverboard.

Yeah wheres my hoverboard.. c'mon

[tehfunk101]

This would break in a real world scenario.

This is just for proof of concept.  I dont think theres servo technology out there yet that can be integrated into a shoe seamlessly.

[Schlup]

Where there's a will there's a way!

[Sir-diealot]

Where there's a will there's a way!

I thought where there's a will there's a bunch of greedy relatives?

[CoCoCountyKiller]

I thought where there's a will there's a bunch of greedy relatives?

LOL

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