The latest evolution of Nike’s response to Kobe Bryant’s challenge to design a basketball shoe with amazing fit, the Nike Zoom Kobe VII Volt model is a standout new colorway, predominantly grey-on-grey-on-black, animated by a vibrant green swoosh and collar trim. The texture is said to resemble rattlesnake skin, a nod, perhaps to Kobe’s Black Mamba on-court persona. What more can you say about a shoe? Well, the new VII’s continue to be built around Nike’s Flywire technology, a thin, flexible layer of high-tensile strength Vectran fiber—practically light as air, five times stronger than steel.