Marty McFly is in town today! In the second Back to the Future, Marty and co. took a trip to 2015 - and made a few futuristic predictions along the way. This momentous day has been 30 years in the making and it's here. Some keen beans have even been counting down the days for quite some time. We may not be in flying cars just yet, and we can't peel our skin off without ending up in hospital, but there are some things that may happen on our 21st October 2015 that Marty saw coming.

Hoverboards!

Yup, we got those. Ok, they're not as sophisticated or widely-adopted but they do exist on some very close to the ground level. Actually, you're right. They don't even hover, they are self-balancing handleless scooters but they're the closest thing you and I can get our hands on for now.

Flying cars

If you go to the Harry Potter studios in London, you can pull this one off. I know, I know, I'm just as disappointed as you.


Laces that tie themselves

Nike have let you down with the self-tying motorised laces (they're reportedly releasing a limited-edition this very week) but in the meantime you can learn a trick or two from Dynamo or David Blaine. Or...just stick to the velcro.



The fashion - oh, the fashion

We don't have self-drying coats (we do have Gore-tex, however) and we don't wear colanders on our heads. But if 'Back to the Future' is a legitimate fancy dress theme, I wouldn't count against seeing lots of garish shirts and bodysuits today.



Video/phone glasses

Yessss! Inspiration served fresh for Google Glass. Shame Back to the Future didn't predict the sales success of these... Marty was ready. We weren't.



Hands-free video games

If you can count the Wii or Kinect or Move...then YES!
(PS. Spot a very young Elijah Wood waaay before he was chosen to carry the ring to Mordor.)


Basically, today is going to be awesome.