Nike patent Marty McFly's self-lacing trainers
Sports giant Nike has taken out a patent of the self-lacing sneakers worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2.In the hit 1989 movie Marty travels to 2015 where he tries on a pair of the Nike branded auto-lacing shoes.
Pressing a button on the power-laces causes the trainers to automatically tighten around his feet -- and made boys everywhere wish they could own a pair.
Now there's hope they could and the high-tech trainers could really be in stores by 2015 after Nike took out a patent for the technology involved in making them.
Which leaves us with one question… who's working on our hover-board.
In the patent Nike say: "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."
It then goes on to detail how the auto-lacing would work and even mentions charging ports and an "automatic ankle cinching system".
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