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01/03/2007

(Video) High-Tech North Face Endurus XCR Boa Shoes

Gizmodo demonstrates The North Face's Endurus XCR Boa trail running shoes, which sports a "lacing system that lets you tie your shoes by turning a special knob, dialing in an even and reproducible tightness that can't come loose." Video after the jump.
...relatively light at about 16 ounces each, and they're made of waterproof Gore-Tex which is breathable but keeps those feet dry
[via Gizmodo]

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There are 11 comments about this post (1 pages).

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Posted at 01/03/2007 8:43pm by LEGEND
nifty
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Posted at 01/03/2007 8:45pm by loppydisk
took me till the last part to figure out whats so special about them. pretty neat
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Posted at 01/03/2007 8:55pm by Ryan
Been done, maybe they partnered on it or something http://www.cyclestore.co.uk/images/products/large/4631.jpg
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Posted at 01/03/2007 10:14pm by skawt
yeah the definately have those in snowboard boots, and have had them for like 2 or 3 years now... the wires break a lot
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Posted at 01/04/2007 08:39am by Neebone
Didn't Reebok do this years ago (more than 10) around the time of the Reebok Pump craze?
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Posted at 01/04/2007 10:24am by billy
addidas tmac 3 has a similar system
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Posted at 01/04/2007 11:03am by james
Puma put out shoes with a dial on the front over 10 years ago. They were ugly as heck but so are these
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Posted at 01/04/2007 11:42am by jack orlando
These have been done before. what i really want to see is a pair of shoes where you can customize the tightness you like and then just press a button to have them automatically tighten.
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Posted at 01/04/2007 1:31pm by Nobrainer’s Think Tank » Adapting technology
[...] North Face has created a shoe that does not need to be tied. Instead a knob is tightened that evenly tightens the lacing system. [...]
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Posted at 01/04/2007 5:54pm by ManMan
burton has the same thing for some of their snowboard boots called speed lacing..very helpful....and the northface shoes are very awesome makes things much easier when hiking
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Posted at 02/01/2007 5:38pm by ipoh2u344f
hello, have nice day
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