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 ...

From flying cars to hoverboards to pizza hydrators, Back to the Future II promised much for life in 2015. And though we've yet to see most of its tech predictions come true, we have seen a number of ...

For less than $10, I retrofitted all my lace-up shoes with no-tie elastic shoelaces, and I've never been happier. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native ...

With a little show-and-tell, and possibly a second pair of laces, you can transform your sneakers into a real conversation piece — and maybe even make them more functional. These styles work best when ...

One approach involves starting at the left eyelet, threading the shoe lace through and leaving enough space for your big toe in the toe box. Experimenting with different lacing styles can cater 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 ...

There used to be a time, before running shoes had blinking LEDs and required placing on an inductive charger overnight, when we weren’t worried about whether or not we could dump the firmware running ...

Here’s a blast from the past, or future, reminiscent of the self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future Part II. [Vimal Patel] made his own self-lacing shoe using LEGO “bolted” to the shoe’s sole. We ...

It’s time once again to discuss the concept of self-lacing shoes made famous by Back to the Future II, because somebody new has taken an IRL shot at it. And while we’ve seen others tackle self-lacing ...