Just 22 years after you initial saw a peek of the shoe of the future, Nike has at final done the Air Mag, the self-lacing, light-up sneaker worn-out by Marty McFly in Back to the Future II . It's not the initial BTTF shoe Nike has made, but its of course the a closest to the movie-prop original, and was written to be an expect replica.
The Air Mag is moreover Nike's initial rechargeable sneaker. The boots have a electroluminescent "Nike" row on the strap, and LEDs heat from the solitary and heel. What it doesn't have is self-lacing laces. Maybe we'll have to wait for for 2015 for these, or may be they're only as well damn hard to make.
The shoes, originally worn-out by Fox in the film, were combined by Nike planner Tinker Hatfield in 1989. He didn't give them sufficient considered until 2005, when he proposed seeing online petitions (like this a ) mission on Nike to let go them. That's when he considered recreating the out of the ordinary kicks. After 6 years outlayed reverse-engineering a shoe used in the film, he and Nike footwear planner Tiffany Beers felt they at last had it right.
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So, how do you obtain your hands (or feet) on this overwhelming square of film story (or future)? You'd improved be ready to outlay a few cash. Nike is auctioning off 1,500 pairs of Air Mags on eBay, with the increase going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research. Prominent Googlers Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki have put up $50 million, with that they'll tie in all donations.
"It would only make clarity that the boots be auctioned to gain the substructure of the human who done them famous," Nike mentioned on the sneakers' web site (Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991).
They're of course sufficient cooler than the Hyperdunk 2015s, that were flattering overwhelming in and of themselves. Unlike the Hyperdunks, however, I do not regard I'll ever obtain my feet in to a span of Mags. But this time I'm completely cheerful with overpricing shoes, as the money going to a great cause.
If you wish to bid, the auctions have already begun over at nikemag.eBay.com .
Angela Watercutter contributed to this report.
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