One of the world’s biggest companies is trying to shake up a business dominated for decades by a Central New York firm. Nike is rolling out an app, Nike Fit, that will allow customers shopping online ...

On a quiet street in Syracuse, N.Y., a small factory makes an American classic: a flat metallic object that millions of people recognize by sight, but few know by name. It’s the Brannock Device, ...

CHICAGO — It's a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children's feet, fit them ...

It's a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children's feet, fit them with the ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...

You know you want to see it in all its sexy robotic glory, so click through. P.S. What’s a Brannock device, you say? It’s that foot-measuring doohickey you didn’t realize had such a noble name. Yes, ...