inspired by the movie ‘back to the future II', blake bevin experimented with creating a pair of self-lacing
shoes. while his solution isn’t the most stylish option the mechanism he installed on the shoes does in
fact work. the project is chronicled in an instructables page and utilizes an arduino microcontroller.
the user steps into the shoes and activates force sensors on the shoe beds. this in turn triggers two servo
motors which apply tension to the laces and tighten the show around the user’s feet. perhaps one day
we may see something similar to this on a shoe, but until then bevin’s solution will have do.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Power-Laces-the-Auto-lacing-shoe/