By: Christin Garrett
It is exciting to witness the development of technology and fashion combined as one. Technology is steadily turning the entire fashion industry around. Though the Apple Watch, and Google Glass get all of the rage, the craze goes way beyond this point. Fashion designers are becoming more innovative; creating accessories, apparel and fitness wear that can do it all from monitoring your heart rate to playing music.
Everyone love a nice sneaker, but hate the reality of having to tie their shoelace every minute, so what better idea than a self-tightening lace. Nike is obviously moving with time by creating the HyperAdapt 1.0 shoe with a self-tightening lace. The shoe has a pressure sensor that triggers to automatically tighten your laces whenever they come unloose. When the battery is low, there are LED lights presented on the soles that will notify wearers how much battery life they have available. When charged, the battery last up to two weeks.
Personally, I think the idea of a self-tightening lace will only add to our lazy habits. Also, for the price of $720, I expect the shoe to have way more innovative features than to only tighten up my shoelace for me. Nike's HyperAdapt 1.0 is a barrier for many people because not many can afford a shoe at such a high price. I'm certain that self-tightening shoes will be as big as self-driving cars in the future.
I agree with your statement about the price compared to the features. $700+ is a bit steep for the innovation, however, the article mentioned technology that has a vibrating sole that connects to GPS to tell you which way to go as your walking. I think that feature is pretty cool and could possibly even encourage people to go out walking places more.
ReplyDelete-Taylor Farmon
What an intereting topic! I have heard of technology changing the fashion industry but not with shoes. I do feel asf tho $700 is a bit expensive for just self tightening shoes. This will open up a new market for the footwear industry. How will addidas or vans keep up? I am excited to see what Nike does with this ideas in the future! Thank you!
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