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 ...

A unique clock has been launched by Kickstarter this month called the NixieX designed by a team of engineers based in Vancouver, Canada. The NixieX Nixie tube clock and speaker system features a ...