Kelsey D. Atherton
at 10:13 AM Oct 22 2015

In the 1989 hit move Back To The Future Part II, our protagonist Marty McFly travels to what was then the strange and distant future day of October 21, 2020, encountering all sorts of strange modern technologies, like hoverboards, dog-walking drones, and Nike shoes that lace themselves up That's today (US time), and while our hoverboards are far from cinematic perfection, Nike has gone ahead and brought the shoes from the movie into real life.

Kelsey D. Atherton
at 15:35 PM Oct 7 2014

Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider looks like the future. Not the distant future -- not the “Star Trek” future -- but a closer, more attainable future. Its design is based primarily on Sikorsky's X-2 project, and as the name implies, this isn’t just the future of helicopters. This is the future of helicopters at war.

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