Those self-lacing Nikes from ‘Back to the Future’ are on the way

It is now 2015. And as any movie fan who has visited the local sneaker emporium recently knows, the self-lacing Nikes depicted in Back to the Future Part II are not yet available for purchase. (The movie’s hero Marty McFly time travels from 1985 to a fictional 2015 in the movie.) There’s good news on the horizon though, because legendary sneaker designer Tinker Hatfield told a trade show audience that the Nike MAG is in development and could be ready later this year. In 2011, Nike put out a limited number of MAGs that did not include the power lacing feature, making them a very expensive and technology-free fashion statement.

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