Infographic: Great Scott!

Let’s start with the nerd portion of today’s musings:

This week Nike made nerd-dreams come true, finally making a movie icon available to the purchasing public. These long-awaited shoes are replicas of those worn by Fox’s character Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future (not sure why I feel the need to give you character and movie details — if you don’t know it, see pie chart below*).

For a limited time, the shoes are available on eBay with auction proceeds benefitting The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research. While the current model doesn’t feature the originals’ self-lacing technology, rumors have it that Nike might still have another surprise down the road.

And now for the design part (still nerdy too):

In case you haven’t taken the appropriate amount of time to really reflect on the awesomeness that is the Back to the Future franchise, I encourage you to check out a collection of BttF infographics I’ve gathered from around the googles.

BttF roads infographic (If you only click on one of these, this is the one)

Timeline of BttF trilogy

How the Flux Capacitor works

Beyond nerdy: trying to prove the implausibility of a work of fiction

How to leverage the gambling opportunities of your time travel activities

Feel free to share any I’ve missed!

*In an effort to keep my brain from turning into end-of-the-week mush, I’ve decided to institute Infographic Friday as a weekly endeavor to create and share infographics that amuse and/or inform on pretty much whatever topic strikes my fancy at the moment. Stay tuned.

Featured image created with Instagram from a photo of the Nike website.