The world's largest zip maker has made a giant self-propelled zip and I reckon it's a potential glimpse of the trousers of the future

Look, I'm not even going to mess around with a creative intro on this one. The world's largest zip manufacturer, YKK, has made a remote-controlled, motorised, self-propelled zip, and it's glorious.

See how it connects a pair of 16-foot membrane sheets together in seconds (via The Verge). Marvel at it zipping up two halves of an industrial-sized tent. Wonder, at least momentarily, as to whether it'll ever be miniaturised down to something clothes-sized.

YKK is the world's largest manufacturer of zips and zippers...