Nixie clocks, which use little vacuum tubes to display the numbers, have been around for a while. Geeks build them, hipsters put them in their lofts, and they range from very cool to not so cool. Now ...

Frank a developer and engineer based in Berlin, Germany has created a unique timepiece, designed using nixie tubes or to be more specific, vacuum fluorescent tube displays based on Project OpenVFD.

Nixie tubes, otherwise known as numicators, were hawt stuff back in the pre-LED/LCD 60s if you wanted to display numerals in their digital form. Now do-it-yourselfers are creating retro clocks using ...

Can you throw any light on the topic as to which Nixie tube-based digital clock is officially recognized as the world’s first such beast? This is the first that I’ve heard of Thomas Bromley, who was ...

Not so long ago, Nixie tubes were the height of digital display technology sophistication. Not so long ago, Nixie tubes were the height of digital display technology sophistication. My chum Frank ...

Looking for something a little more unique as a desktop clock? This retro Nixie Tube desk clock might just be the perfect thing. If you have a few hours to spare and a soldering iron to hand, you ...

Which Nixie tube clocks are best? Recently, using clocks that tell time using old-fashioned vacuum tubes (Nixie tubes) has become more popular. For anyone who loves to see the guts of technology, a ...

The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people. [Changliang Li] is apparently one of those people, because he’s using soviet-era cold-cathode ...

Which digital wall clock is best? Whether you need particularly large numbers, extra information such as temperature or features such as alarms and dimmable backlighting, a wide range of digital wall ...