Hands up those of you who watched Back To The Future II and wanted a pair of Marty McFly’s self-tying Nike trainers. That’s right, we can almost hear the wave of rising hands from here. Well guess what. One amateur inventor has made them reality in our video of the week.
Cast your mind back to Nike’s Back To The Future inspired patent involving an “automatic lacing system” earlier this week. It sounded too good to be true, right? Wrong, because inventor, Blake Bevin made a pair of her own.
She doesn’t believe Nike will sell its own Back To The Future style trainers anytime soon, but if you donate enough money (see the widget here) to support Bevin’s project you could own a pair sooner than you think.
Check out the video below to see the sort of high-tech footwear you could one day be wearing:
