Editor's take: Nike's original goal with the Go FlyEase was to better back up adaptive athletes with disabilities but it quickly became credible that the shoe was "really universal." At present, it'southward poised to compete direct with other well-known slip-on shoes like Crocs and serves as an alternative to other contemporary easily-gratis solutions.

Nike on Monday introduced a radically unlike shoe that utilizes a unique blueprint to make sliding them on and off a truly hands-free experience.

The Nike Become FlyEase employs a bi-stable hinge which, along with the FlyEase tensioner, allows the shoe to be stable in fully open and closed states. You quite literally slide your foot into it and so step down to lock the rear half of the shoe in place. When it comes time to remove them, only step on the heel using your opposite foot, step up then slide your foot out.

The shoes are office of Nike's broader FlyEase family, which consists of more than than 20 easy-entry footwear styles.

The Nike Get FlyEase shoes will be available to select Nike members starting February 15 with broader consumer availability coming afterward this year. Pricing wasn't mentioned but according to CNBC, they'll get for $120 a pair.

At that toll, they'd exist a chip more expensive than other slip-ons like Crocs, but they're besides targeting a dissimilar audience and arguably look far more than stylish than the foam clogs.