Whether Nike, or any other shoe company, is working on a way to make something like this part of regular shoe production isn’t clear.
Back to the Future Part 2 makes the shoes out to be no big deal, we’re sure everybody has a pair, but in reality, they’re quite rare.
While the technology is now real, what’s clear, due to the fact that there are less than 100 pairs of these shoes available, is that the technology isn’t yet cheap enough to really make it viable for everyday use.
While it took just as long as the movie predicted to make power laces a real thing, this is more a case of time imitating art than the other way around.