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Back To The Future Nike Air Mag shoes inspire our 10 tech trainers

The Nike Air Mag shoes from Back To The Future 2 are on eBay, but not for us Brits. Instead, we've designed our own signature shoes based on our favourite technology giants from Apple to Android to Angry Birds.

We were inspired by designer Gerry Mckay, who decked out Adidas Superstar sneakers in the familiar blue and white of Facebook and the turquoise of Twitter.

What would a Google clog, Wikipedia welly or MySpace mocassin look like? Which mobile users would be more stylishly shod: Android or Apple? Click through the photo gallery above to see the results of our elbow grease and shoe leather with our technology-tooled tailor-made trainers.

Shoe-per

We created the personalised concept shoes using the custom tools offered by Adidas Originals, Nike and Zazzle. Each site offers you the chance to customise every aspect of different shoes before buying, even adding pictures and text to your shoes. You can select from a vast range of classic kicks, including Nike Air and Nike Dunk, and Adidas Stan Smith, Samba and Superstar.

Sadly, there were some ideas we had to leave on the drawing board. We designed a pair of WikiLeaks shoes, but they were full of holes. Our netbook-themed pumps weren't very comfortable -- they were just too small. And we had a go at a pair of running shoes for broadband providers, but they didn't work out either -- we put them on and just couldn't go as fast as we were supposed to.

It's a shoe-in

If Marty McFly's shoes are real, Puma can make a phone, your iPod can talk to your trainers and you can get slip-ons with hoovers in, then shoes are clearly the next big technology accessory. In fact, we hear Sony is working on a pair to demonstrate how excited it is about 3D televisions and movies. We hear the left shoe is red, the right one's green, they're too expensive and nobody wants them anyway.

Now you've walked a while in our shoes, let your fingers do the walking down to the comments to tell us which of our creations is your favourite and which are a load of cobblers -- and let us know which tech giants you'd like to wear on your feet.

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anonymous 29 November, 2010 20:44

Love the LinkedIn eBrogue. Very elegant. But will they give you a reference?

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Anonymous 30 November, 2010 02:37

Can't remember the last time I had a BSOD, but the Windows Trainers are certainly the best looking of the bunch. Followed by Facebook surprisingly enough.

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anonymous 30 November, 2010 09:45

should have called it the Shoe Screen of Death

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Dean Shepherd 9 September, 2011 17:26

oh...dear....god....too...many....puns....can't....comment....coherently.......

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Jacob Dutt 9 September, 2011 19:03

cracking article Rich! gotta save up my monies for a pair of cnet shoes though now

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andydandy 9 September, 2011 22:08

A good article containing some trainers I actually liked! (I am not a trainer type person). Maybe you missed your collective vocation?

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