Nike ramped up its investments in adaptive footwear technology with a pair of January releases. The athletic brand dropped an updated version of its headline-grabbing Adapt BB self-lacing smart shoe ...

QinetiQ researchers have developed a futuristic smart shoe with multiple functionalities including smart textiles, flexible power storage, GPS tracking and physiological monitoring. The shoes also ...

There’s a case to be made that the smart shoe was first popularized by the self-lacing Nike Mags that Marty McFly wore in the hit film “Back to the Future II” back in 1989. Since then, the world has ...

An Israeli company is crowdfunding a "smart shoe", which they say will actually prevent falls. The B-shoe (for balancing shoe) is an interesting twist on the concept: Many times, when inventors talk ...

Can electronic systems effectively improve your athletic skills, whether you’re a professional or a passionate runner? To try to answer to this question, let’s look at this recently introduced ...

For people with Parkinson’s, stroke survivors and older adults, the constant fear of falling lingers with every step they take — cutting into their quality of life and affecting their independence.