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Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes?
xTK-421x writes "Looks like Nike is announcing tonight (8:30PM PST) that they've finally been able to create the self lacing shoes from Back to the Future 2. TechCrunch reported on receiving an invitation to a Nike event taking place in Los Angeles today, where Nike would announce the release of the Air Mags, the self-lacing shoes that first made their appearance in Back to the Future II."
It would be cheaper to hire sweatshop labourers to follow you around and tie your shoes as necessary.
Looking forward to the Cubs winning the World Series too.
I dont care about the self-tying shoes. I wouldnt even be all that disappointed if they didnt make a hoverboard. But I pray that no one is trying to make the hideous jacket with the 4-ft long accordion sleeve. If anyone tries, they should be shot on sight.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
The lace is a tie.
At least we did get the life preservers.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Dear God, you'll be almost suicidal when you find out they don't know how milk cows or make butter or even such trivial things as weaving wool.
Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down.
Rimmer: Is this true?
Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see.
Rimmer: Really?
Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'.
Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute.
[Thinks for a minute]
Rimmer: How did they open the car door?
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Dude, shut up! We're talking about riding on a floating piece of wood above a ball of lightning wearing a proton pack and self-tying sneakers. That is SO much a nicer vision of future than the real one.
Buzz kill. :P