Back to the Future Day 2015

Is today the Day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future? YES!!! Finally it’s here! Future is now!

Welcome Marty McFly! Hi Doc!

Today -October 21st, 2015 is a special day. It’s the day to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled from 1985 in their DeLorean time machine in the second film of the Back to the Future trilogy.

The filmmakers tried to imagine how 2015 will look like. So, what the movie got right… How many of the futuristic predictions have come true?

1. The prediction about flying cars: Sadly, we still need roads and traffic queues are still big problem. But there is a hope that soon people will fly in their own cars. Inventors developed “Transition” that is the vehicle that double up as both plane and car. It has space for 2 passengers and will cost around $279,000 when it eventually goes on sale.

2. The prediction about hoverboards: Hoverboard is a nerdy dream of every “Back to the future” fan. A lot of companies have claimed to have built real working hoverboards. For instance: Californian architect Greg Henderson designed a similar board that floats in mid-air called the Hendo Hoverboard in October last year. I have only one question: Where could I buy it?

3. The prediction about self-tying shoelaces: Who wouldn’t want to have a pair of Nike High Tops that automatically tighten and adjust to fit your feet? Canadian inventors come up with the solution. Their “Powerlace auto-lacing system” lets people tie their shoes easily using their own weight that automatically engages the system’s mechanism.

4. The prediction about smart homes and drones: The number of smart home products—devices that let you control your lighting, thermostat, or even your crock pot from your smartphone—is rapidly growing. For example, LG’s Smart Manager fridge lets users order food from the supermarket, while a ‘Maid’ smart oven gives users  instructions and recipes.

5. The prediction about smart glasses: Every one knows that Google was one of the first companies to jump on this particular prediction with its Google Glass headset. It can  make phone calls, show videos and information in the wearer’s line of sight like in the movie.

6. The prediction about 3D billboards: I have never been faced with a holographic shark appears to leap from the surface. But 3D films are common place today. And Austrian researchers claimed to have cracked the problem of creating giant displays that can show images in 3D without the need for glasses.

7. The prediction about fingerprint scanners: Fingerprint scanners are common place nowadays, especially on phones from the likes of Samsung and Apple.

8. The prediction about video calls: Millions of people use Skype for holding conversations via text messaging, voice calls and video calls. Making calls on a TV is also now possible thanks to the rise of smart television sets.

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Happy Back to the Future Day!