Homemade Power Laces Are A Blast From The Past (VIDEO)

High-top sneaker enthusiasts: Rejoice! Do-it-yourself blog Instructables.com has published a step-by-step tutorial for making your own auto-lacing shoes, a la Marty McFly's Nike Airs 2015 from Back To The Future II.

For the cost of a pair of Nike Airs (and various other supplies), you can be the envy of anyone who ever owned, pined for or saw high-topped shoes.

Check out the finished product in the video below, then scroll down for a look at Marty McFly's Nike Airs 2015 from Back To The Future II.

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Comments

[ilovecandy]

08:11 AM on 07/07/2010

Can Americans get any lazier. We're quickly moving toward the era of the fat people in Wall-E

[dsdem]

03:28 AM on 07/07/2010

How deliciously impractical. I smell a new fad.

[Erzsebet Gilbert]

12:41 AM on 07/07/2010

Blast from the past? What happened to those sweet light-up sneakers from the early '90s? I want light-up bedroom slippers.

[ramblingjohnny]

12:37 AM on 07/07/2010

They got our decade so wrong it not even funny! Where my overboard and my flying car damn it! On the other hand nobody has fax anymore!

[Lahonda]

10:13 PM on 07/06/2010

...does that come in ribbed latex?

[mjeffn]

02:17 AM on 07/07/2010

ouch!

[hdohighdesertobserver]

07:54 PM on 07/06/2010

I'm designing a pocket protector along the same lines.