{"id":332,"date":"2016-10-23T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/?p=332"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:24:20","slug":"quick-post-23102016-nike-mags-are-finally-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/23\/quick-post-23102016-nike-mags-are-finally-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post: 23\/10\/2016 &#8211; Nike Mags are finally real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who are a little more mature will recall the Back to the Future 2 scene where Marty McFly puts on a pair of Nike shoes with power laces. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m referring to, then check out the clip below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marty Gets Power Laces\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7wrw19K_g_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the film release in 1989, there has been plenty of talk in relation to these things becoming real. \u00a0Well, after only 27 years, they ARE real, but unfortunately you&#8217;re unlikely to get your hands on them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_337\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-image-337 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nike-Mag-2016-Official-02_native_1600-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"nike-mag-2016-official-02_native_1600\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nike-Mag-2016-Official-02_native_1600-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nike-Mag-2016-Official-02_native_1600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nike-Mag-2016-Official-02_native_1600-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nike-Mag-2016-Official-02_native_1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: news.nike.com (http:\/\/news.nike.com\/news\/how-to-get-the-2016-nike-mag)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nike decided to produce just 89 pairs of shoes (possibly in a nod back to the original year of release), and auctioned 88 pairs for Parkinsons disease research &#8211; something that Michael J. Fox has been fighting for a number of years. \u00a0That auction finished in the last few days, with the star tweeting that it had raised $6.75m &#8211; a huge amount for a really worthwhile cause.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NikeMag?src=hash\">#NikeMag<\/a> Draw &amp; auctions raised $6.75M for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelJFoxOrg\">@michaeljfoxorg<\/a> \u2013 amazing. Thank you to everyone who took part.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael J. Fox (@realmikefox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmikefox\/status\/789105521706078208\">October 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, if you&#8217;re still keen to at least see them working in real life, WIRED managed to grab some video when they tried them on recently, so check out the clip below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tested: WIRED tries Nike&#039;s HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing trainers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jAGsT-EOSC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who are a little more mature will recall the Back to the Future 2 scene where Marty McFly puts on a pair of Nike shoes with power laces. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m referring to, then&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/23\/quick-post-23102016-nike-mags-are-finally-real\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}