The Puhlmann Nixie Clock looks like the sleek down-ticker a moustache-twirling cyborg would attach to his doomsday device, but then fall hopelessly in love with and so the world would be saved. The secret is in the numbers embedded in -- yes, you're right, those are honest-to-God vacuum tubes. Just the swoonsome thing for the green-screener- cum-mad-scientist in your life. Video after the jump. € 249,95. [GT]
Puhlmann Nixie Clock [via Technabob]
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Actually, steampunk iterations of the Nixie tube clock have been around nearly as long as tube-obsessed hobbyists. See these sites:
http://tubeclock.com/
http://www.nixieclock.net/
http://www.amug.org/%7Ejthomas/clockwork.html
(This one sports an animated gif of the clock in action) http://www.hanssummers.com/electronics/clocks/nixie/index.htm
(A Nixie GPS)
http://www.navtechgps.com/supply/nixiclock.asp
(A carefully aged and trashed Nixie clock for that dystopian future-in-decay Blade Runner ambiance)
http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Projects/nixie/index.html
If anybody cares, Nixie tubes do not contain a vacuum but are filled with Neon gas.