Brushed metal nixie tube clock

The nature of nixie tubes makes any clock made of them relatively indistinguishable from its brethren, short of the composition of the base. There's not a lot of variation: six nixies lined up in a row, fluorescently glowing strangely sinewy numerals in the dark. But I still love the look for a bedside clock. This one is $350: it's like a Cold War nuclear countdown to the 6am apocalypse of waking up.

IN14 Brushed Clock [Tubeclock via Uncrate]

[#1 posted by David Carroll , February 9, 2009 5:23 AM]

I used a Nixie tube calculator in university. It was a basic four function twelve digit model about the size of a small bar fridge!

I just did some shopping and figured I could build from scratch a clone of this clock for less than $100. I need a clock in my living room, and this would be sufficiently geeky, and fun to make too!

[#2 posted by boisterouslad , February 10, 2009 8:48 AM]

there are also these

http://glowingtech.com/clocks.html

and here

http://glowingtech.com/gallery.html

nixie tubes are lovely things, the tubes themselves are starting to become expensive to acquire.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , February 10, 2009 9:41 AM]

jammit
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this:
http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.html