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by Ramses Flores Posted:August 27th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
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If you watched Back to the Future Part II as a kid, then you probably grew up wanting a hover board along with Marty McFly’s self-lacing shoes. Although we are still (hopefully) a few years away from hover boards, Nike has filed a patent for a shoe that strongly resembles Marty’s sneakers from the future. It’s currently unknown when the shoes will hit the market, but the patent shows that Nike is serious about making a lot of us happy by developing the technology. Hit the jump for more details.
The patent for the proposed shoe goes into some more detail by saying that “the automatic lacing system provides a set of straps that can be automatically opened and closed to switch between a loosened and tightened position of the upper. The article further includes an automatic ankle cinching system that is configured to automatically adjust an ankle portion of the upper.”
According to MSNBC, the shoes will work by having you “slip a switch, and the shoe tightens as if you just pulled and tightened conventional laces. The switch activates a motor that rolls or unrolls a spool of wire distributed throughout the shoe. When the spool reels in the wire, the shoe tightens along axis supported by various rods.”
I personally can’t wait to see the finished product. In the meantime, here’s the clip from Back to the Future Part II.
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Yea I will buy the second they come on the market
I love that part.
Sure to be reconfigured as a torture device.
as long as these things don’t electrocute me when i step in a puddle XD
Hope it hits the market by 2015.
wont these things be heavy because of the extra machinery?!
This is actually a good idea for people so fat they can’t actually physically tie their laces.
Awesome
If they are smart besides a contemporary version for todays kids they have to design an exact replica pair of the ones from the movie just for the diehard fans as well , cuz thats the pair i want !
Hell. Yes.
i want so bad