Which Nike shoe was the company’s first mass-produced self-lacing model?

The Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 was the company’s first mass-produced self-lacing shoe.

Released in 2016, the HyperAdapt 1.0 used an electronically controlled lacing system called E.A.R.L., short for Electric Adaptable Reaction Lacing. Sensors detected when the wearer placed a foot inside, and the shoe tightened its cables around the foot. Buttons allowed additional adjustment.

The concept drew public attention because it resembled the fictional self-lacing footwear seen in Back to the Future Part II. Nike had created a limited replica, the Air Mag, before the HyperAdapt, but the HyperAdapt was the important step toward a production shoe designed for regular retail release.

The HyperAdapt is also distinct from later Adapt basketball shoes, which refined the same general idea for court use. Its significance was not simply automatic lacing; it introduced electronically adjustable fit as a commercial Nike product category.