Humans have been tying shoelaces for millennia and while many shoe designers have tried in the past to create a shoe with velcro, zippers, and other securing measures, the lace has endured. Nike may have just taken a step toward challenging the lace’s dominance.

On Monday, Nike announced a brand new shoe that uses a novel shoe technology that attempts to eliminate that added step: the GO FlyEase, a step in, step out shoe that ditches all lacing, adjusting, and technical altering.

The technology for the shoe rests in a so-called bistable hinge, a patent-pending design that is built into the shoe’s outsole. The hinge alternates between an “on” and “off” position. Without your foot inside, the shoe rests in the off position, which looks like the outsole has been inverted or even broken. Pop your foot into the shoes and it quickly locks into the on position. To keep the shoe in both positions, a tensioner wraps around the outside of the shoe, which does the tightening and securing that would normally go to the laces.

Contrary to what it might look like, the bi-stable hinge doesn’t split the shoe in half, but rather bifurcates the outsole, according to Sarah Reinertsen, Nike’s lead designer of the GO FlyEase.

In designing the shoe, Reinertsen says the design team used their years of research that went into developing the original FlyEase, which used zippers and other ties to make for an easier and still secure lace-up. But in designing the new GO FlyEase, the team knew they wanted to eliminate any need to use your hands at all. “If we could create something that if someone with no hands could get their shoes on, then we could unlock those benefits for all.”

The process of removing the shoe is perhaps their biggest appeal to shoe-wearers everywhere. Nike drew inspiration from the common method of using your toe to hold the opposite shoe as you pull your heel out of it.

The GO FlyEase shoe will be available to selected Nike members starting on February 15 and available more broadly in the coming months.(SD-Agencies)