Blake Bevin’s awesome home-built self-lacing sneakers are headed to a store near you, thanks to an almost too-appropriate effort to fund the production on the Kickstarter site.
You may remember v1.0 of Bevin’s sneakers, an early version of the Nike boots worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2, with an external Arduino-controlled motor that only a geek could love. V2.0 is now ready, and all the components (servos) have been hidden inside for a way cooler shoe. Take a look at the video. The money-shot is at the end:
I know, right? If you’re like me you let out a little moan when you saw the laces tighten. Bevin is using the Kickstarter project to raise money to further develop the invention and take it to market, and hopefully it won’t fall foul of Nike’s patent of the idea (a patent which is clearly invalidated by prior-art: the movie itself). If you want to, ahem, kick-in with some cash, head over to the site and take a look.
Kickstarter project page [Kickstarter. Thanks, Blake!]
See Also:
- Back to the Future: Hacker Makes Self-Lacing Sneakers
- Great Scott! The 2015 McFly Sneakers Are Now (Somewhat) Real …
- McFly 2015s Patented by Nike
- Nike Patents Marty McFly's Self-Lacing Sneaker
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