Get ready for Back to the Future 2 shoelaces!

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s website and Dime, Tinker Hatfield and his boys at the Nike Innovative Kitchen have filed patent papers for a shoe with an automatic lacing system, such as seen on the Nike Air Mag from Back to the Future II.

If this technology is to be used in the form of a Marty McFly inspired sneaker it would be the definition of game changer; the perfect intersection between performance and nostalgia. The movie was set in 2015; is a Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” release on the horizon?

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Patent Summary:

 

An article of footwear with an automatic lacing system is disclosed. 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.

Source: http://www.nicekicks.com/2010/08/possible-nike-air-mag-marty-mcfly-release/

you can patent an idea that you copied directly from a movie eh?

  On 8/27/2010 at 9:57 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

you can patent an idea that you copied directly from a movie eh?

you mean the movie version was functional?

That's like saying NASA ripped off the makers of journey to the moon

Wouldn't Nike have done a Patent for this a long long time ago? even before the movie came out?

you can't patent an idea....

Interesting idea. Sounds very vague at the moment.

You can get a patent for anything really so this could not be a finished idea at all yet.

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:09 AM, spratters said:

Interesting idea. Sounds very vague at the moment.

 

You can get a patent for anything really so this could not be a finished idea at all yet.

The Back to the Future trilogy has been announced on BluRay not long ago so maybe it'll be part of some huge collector's edition or a new Back to the Future campaign for 2015 (which is when the sequel took place)... or maybe not.

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:54 AM, jules said:

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX1hTEI_W8

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:54 AM, jules said:

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

current hipster fashion is pretty close to back to the future's 'future' fashion, though.

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:54 AM, jules said:

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

yeah that's what i was thinking. i'd like a hoverboard WAAAAAY more than "power laces" !

  On 8/27/2010 at 12:32 PM, Squee said:

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:54 AM, jules said:

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX1hTEI_W8

not impressed.

  On 8/27/2010 at 2:39 PM, Jonas said:

Magnets, how do they work?

So when they pitched this, did they just include that drawing and a clip from the movie?

who'd rock em?

we are seriously becoming so fucking lazy

its called velcro

  On 8/27/2010 at 6:46 PM, ruiagnelo said:

we are seriously becoming so fucking lazy

do you really think that nike is developing this because people are too lazy to tie their shoes?

  On 8/27/2010 at 7:19 PM, 24ourange said:

  On 8/27/2010 at 6:46 PM, ruiagnelo said:

we are seriously becoming so fucking lazy

 

do you really think that nike is developing this because people are too lazy to tie their shoes?

i understand it from the perspective of innovation and invention, but tie shoes automatically... what is the point?

what is to come next... clothes that are automatically wearable?

  On 8/27/2010 at 2:39 PM, modey said:

  On 8/27/2010 at 11:54 AM, jules said:

still no hoverboards though. wtf.

current hipster fashion is pretty close to back to the future's 'future' fashion, though.

yeah totally.,

i already got me the hat

^ Love the Brass Eye shirt too.

  On 8/27/2010 at 7:29 PM, ruiagnelo said:

i understand it from the perspective of innovation and invention, but tie shoes automatically... what is the point?

what is to come next... clothes that are automatically wearable?

ask the person that wrote back to the future 2.

Its not practical feature! It's an aesthetic one. it was not designed to save people time or accomplish anything but reference a movie

  On 8/27/2010 at 7:51 PM, 24ourange said:

  On 8/27/2010 at 7:29 PM, ruiagnelo said:

i understand it from the perspective of innovation and invention, but tie shoes automatically... what is the point?

what is to come next... clothes that are automatically wearable?

 

ask the person that wrote back to the future 2.

 

Its not practical feature! It's an aesthetic one. it was not designed to save people time or accomplish anything but reference a movie

but people might enjoy that and ask for more.

and we both know how many actions related to our daily life have become automatic nowadays. it's just a matter of time until this becomes as well.

  On 8/27/2010 at 6:46 PM, ruiagnelo said:

we are seriously becoming so fucking lazy

People who are too lazy to tie shoe laces wear loafers. Like me.

  On 8/27/2010 at 7:41 PM, Rotwang said:

^ Love the Brass Eye shirt too.

hardly anyone gets it, but it's cool when someone does. i got a few tshirts like that