Nike unwraps new self-tying shoe

Nike president and CEO Mark Parker reveals their latest innovative sports products during an event in New York on March 16, 2016. Nike revealed a series of products highlighted by the groundbreaking “adaptive lacing” platform, as well as a pioneering technology that separates mud from cleats and transformations in the celebrated innovations of Nike Air and Nike Flyknit. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD

NEW YORK: US sporting goods giant Nike unveiled its first shoe that ties itself, the HyperAdapt 1.0, which will go on sale at the end of 2016. 

Sensors at the heel level activate the lacing when a foot slips into the shoe. Two buttons on the side of the shoe can be pressed to loosen or tighten the lacing.