Nike’s self-lacing shoes coming next year

Fox later had a sit-down with Kimmel to talk about Marty action figure and making “Back to the Future”.

Nike sent Back to the Future fans into a frenzy online after tweeting “See you tomorrow” to Michael J. Fox on October 20th – the day before “Back To The Future Day”.

While Back to the Future gave the design a few retro-future chic, there are real, practical applications for self-lacing kicks. Like their 2011 campaign, all proceeds will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

The company filed a US Patent for self-lacing shoes in July 2014, featuring motorised rollers embedded in the soles.

The auction raised more than $9.4 million to support their efforts to help speed a cure for Parkinson’s and drew critical awareness to the importance of Parkinson’s research. “The auto, the movies and the vehicle got me”, said Kyle Nix of Upper Darby, Pa. Robery Arana of Doylestown showed off his very own DeLorean that includes his own version of a flux-capacitor he made himself.

Fox, who has suffered with Parkinson’s Disease since 1991, was the first person to receive a pair of the futuristic sneakers.

Anyone who grew up in the 80s remembers that moment when Marty McFly slips his feet into a pair of Nike sneakers that magically secure themselves to his feet in “Back the Future, Part II”.

“We started creating something for fiction and we turned it into fact, inventing a new technology that will benefit all athletes”, Mark Parker, president and CEO of Nike, said in a post officially announcing the shoes.

In case you missed it, that is the date Marty McFly travels to in the second instalment of the time-travelling film franchise.

Tinker appears to be Tinker Hatfield, a Nike shoe designer. Kimmel’s first idea of humankind’s greatest inventions the last 30 years is the cronut.

Since the film’s 1989 release, the shoes have become a longed-for item for the movie’s fans and sneaker enthusiasts.