hey everybody throw him from tested and for today's show-and-tell we got a
special guest with some special stuff to show this is Steven Steve how are you
doing I'm doing great Thank You norm now Steve is a longtime friend of the site
he's guessing on our podcast and among many other things you are a connoisseur
of pop culture and technology yes and this is you know a fusion of those two
things absolutely so what we have today well a little bit history because we're
talking back to the future right actually feature to Martin McFly puts on
the self-lacing yeah Power laces far out these are those of that Nike Air Mags
yes and in fact you can even see it on the back they've got this like cool like
late 80s mag so it's been one of these holy grails of not only technology nerds
and film buffs but also presumably sneakerheads yeah I mean it's a seminal
moment where you have like sneakers featured in a film right and you know
back to the future - there's so many brands in there there's Pepsi there's
Texaco there's jaws and like Nike plays a huge part in that it almost makes me
think back to like 2001 and being the first film with real brand right like
Pan Am exactly right one of those things that as a viewer you're like okay that's
imagining the Year 2015 so far from now we've got to have those by 2050 right
well what you have here is something it was released in 2011 that's correct
and this was a limited release yeah so what they did was there was a petition
in like the mid-2000s to release these and yeah this is based off the Tinker
Hatfield design that 2011's were done with by Tiffany beers and Michael
Fritton they're like you know what let's let's do something and let's let's build
these and so they made 1500 10 pairs and they put them on auction on eBay with
all the proceeds going to Michael J Fox foundation for Parkinson's research
absolutely and they sold out very quickly yeah they're successful tons of
bidding yeah I think you know anywhere between fifteen hundred and nine
thousand dollars per pair over the course of the days this is a size 10 so
I think was like 3500 bucks or so wouldn't sneakerheads they know throw
there because they want to wear it you know sighs how
how many they made on like secondary markets they can go up to like $10,000
of course yeah and so these they raised over nine million dollars for the
foundation and it was a huge success and these are now become sort of like Holy
Grail shoes for collectors they don't power lace these are basically like
moccasins this is all this is all has the elastic but they do light up and
that's good enough for 2011 yeah and so these were actually a real pair of shoes
verified yet the the certificate of authenticity yep it's it's this was what
was available in 2011 you mentioned Tinker Hatfield yeah famous shoe
designer in that the Air Jordans yeah so he did the Air Max ones and then Jordan
3 through 15 so like that whole like huge era of of
Jordans is all Tinker Hatfield and while he wasn't directly related to this
release in 2011 his team he works at Nike he'd been developing research for
some type of power lacing shoes correct right yeah the original movie prop if
you notice his foot is stuck to the ground because there's all these like
pulleys and cables underneath that people pulling on that to make the shoe
actually work right well fast-forward a little bit and in
ticker Hatfield's lab at Nike they had been working on something they called
the hyperadapt right which in 2018 has been released it is a thing that you can
buy want to spend three hundred fifty dollars on a pair of shoes that do power
lace do they ever put those in these yeah so they did a really limited
release I said like 1500 pairs of this they did a 89 shoe run of the 2016 mags
that do power lace and you couldn't buy them on eBay or anything you had to buy
a raffle ticket it's $10 per ticket so you can imagine a lot of people buying a
lot of tickets they raised over six and a half million dollars at that time and
they auctioned off one pair and went for over $100,000 Wow
so and like those shoes now are and they go over 40,000 dollars apiece if you can
find someone who wants to sell true holy grails yes in the shoe world something a
little more affordable but also is rare is what you've brought
today yeah because I know people can can buy the hyper adapts and there's been a
bunch of reviews we haven't seen so first I'm seeing them the function
person we're excited that turn them on but this was recently released as of
course inspired by the air mag color away yeah they call it the adapt BB BB
is basketball so it's like sort of designed for basketball but they call it
Wolfe grey nobody calls it like even on stock X is listed as the mag yeah that's
what it is I mean if it's got the same you know it's a kind of jazz pattern and
color shame and everything so yeah it's not the exact form factor and what it is
they're stylized version but run me through the functionality because you've
you these are your pairs yeah and you wear them I I have one that my ID I
didn't wear them too much because I knew we were gonna shoot this but I'm gonna
wear them after this awesome ok good take off what I'm wearing now alright um
so adapt bb's they have a motor in the midsole and then it pulls on this kind
of latticework that's on the upper and the lower and the cool thing about it is
when you first put on the shoe it starts to cinch and so you hear this motor and
it's it's starting to tighten up and it actually gets a little too tight right
at first like is it gonna keep going what's happening here and then then it
backs off a little bit and so it tries to adapt to where your foot is what I
thought was really interesting for me is I had custom dress shoes made and I
found out that one of my feet is bigger than the other slightly and then when it
did the adjustment and I looked on the app there was actually a slight
difference between the shoes it's very like there's a quantifiable tension yeah
yeah it's almost like a slider and so it said like one of these is actually
correct and so yes there is an app that connects to your shoe via bluetooth you
could send firmware updates to shoe and you can change the color of the LEDs on
the side and all kinds of other stuff I never thought I'd say be updating the
firmware my shoe so you Greg profiles for like I'm I'm gonna get on the court
and I want to be a certain tightness or maybe I was casually walking yeah or I'm
entering her house and I want to loosen up automatically and in slip off can you
imagine if you know like mr. Rogers head he walks into the house and he hears
this motor noise and he just pulls his shoe right off she
right do fenced so the the amount of tension I think they were saying like 32
pounds of force which is kind of like a parachute cord and it yeah that the
scientists scientists are saying like oh well you you want it at one tension for
when you're warming up and you start the game and then by the end of the game
your foot is swelled a little bit and so you want to have profiles for that sure
clearly there's like maybe there's some utility I don't think any player has
actually worn them throughout an entire game I've seen them in warm-ups and
practices but like not you know quarter one to quarter four could you get them
to tight like bullets stop before it gets it too tight on your foot you know
I don't know I I let it stop where it once stopped I could move the slider up
yeah but I'm sure there has to be some sort of safety mechanism it just because
it it can bat it started backing up as soon as like that tension got a little
bit tight so I'm sure there's a safety mechanism and there's also actually a
battery reserve so they don't get stuck on your feet like the battery dies and
you're trapped inside your shoe so you have a primary battery a battery reserve
and it's charged via these conductive pads yes they're sitting on right now
yep a charger with two circles though align them for need pretty close no you
don't you just kind of sit him on there and then the it lights up one that's
plugged in oh my god yeah the funny thing is that I was showing this off at
work and someone threw their phone on it just to see what would happen and it
started charging just your very standard Qi charger yeah some poles
electromagnetic coils very cool oh my god okay well we got to get you putting
these on right we're gonna get some shots of that but these are now maybe
that the third most rare but there's clearly a big Delta between these yes
you know these are they did sell out really fast yeah on sneakers so you know
if you look at secondary markets like 450 500 now a retail I think we talked
about was like 350 bucks they're really cool they're much lighter than you think
and you know the fit is great I think one of the one of the areas where this
technology could be really helpful is actually for people who are disabled
you know it can't bend down to tie their shoes or unable usually you have like
velcro or slip ons this will give you a much better fit and so hopefully we see
this kind of trickle down absolutely it's gonna start at the high
end yeah exactly for people for connoisseurs like you and thank you
Steve so much for bringing these in for us to take a look at could I try it on
yeah absolutely I'm gonna do that thank you guys for watching we'll see you next
time Thanks