jasonlederman
at 10:13 AM Oct 22 2015

October 21, 2020, is Back To The Future Day, the day Marty McFly travels 30 years into the future to 2015, in 1989's Back to the Future Part II (set in 1985, stay with us)! Marty famously rides a hoverboard in the film, but we're all still waiting to freely fly around here in the real 2015. Leave it to Twitter, though, to let the world know what it would do if users had hoverboards by tagging tweets with #IfIHadAHoverboard

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.

Sophie Bushwick
at 10:50 AM Oct 21 2015

This Back to the Future Day,real hoverboards may be out of your wallet's reach. But there's one piece of tech from BttF 2 that you can buy or even make yourself: Marty McFly's auto-lacing shoes.

Kelsey D. Atherton
at 09:59 AM Oct 19 2015
Gadgets // 

We're almost at the end of 2015, and the question isn't if Back To The Future's Marty McFly would have a hoverboard to ride, but which one?

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