I found a great little workaround to allow you to check in to any location you want, even if you’re not there.  This also works for Google Latitude, Foursquare, and other location based applications.  The best part is that you do not have to root, unlock, hack, or modify your phone in any way.  I’ve [...]

Full review here: http://www.tubeclockdb.com/

Here is just a quick video I made of my new Turbo Hobby IV-18 clock.  3 Word review: I like it.  I should have a more in depth review soon, but in the mean time, see what he has for sale here: http://shop.ebay.com/turbo_hobby/m.html

I just finished a review of the NixieKits.eu IN-12 clock for TubeClockDB.com.  You can read the full review here or you can just buy the clock here Jürgen Grau is the deigned behind this device  and he sells this clock as both a kit and fully assembled. The kit costs €149 and the fully assembled [...]

I just got my IV-17 Four Letter Word generator.  It has a dictionary of 5,400 words including common acronyms and a few proper nouns too.  For those of you keeping this at your office, it even has a word filter to prevent offensive words from being shown.  Be sure to check out the video and [...]

I just got my new IN-12 Nixie clock in the mail from NixieKits.eu and this thing is impressive.  I will be doing a full video review over the weekend and posting it on tubeclockdb.com.  Trust me, you will like this one… Tubes: IN-12 Nixie tubes, 18 mm digit height, decimal points with flashing LEDs. Background [...]

These are seven segment displays. Each segment is painted a bright yellow and fluoresces under UV light. The segments do not actually draw any power except when they are moved. Behind each segment is a solenoid that flips the segment on or off. Several units are then daisy chained together to form larger numbers.

Afrotech mods -  the website that bills itself as “ghetto hardware fun” has a great video up on YouTube.  It is a montage of components being destroyed by over voltage, current, or reversed polarity.  There may be some educational value…but it is just fun to watch.

I just came across a NEO-8000 planar neon display in less-than-perfect condition.  In fact, this is easily the worst condition tube in my entire collection. I’ve never seen the cathodes deteriorate quite like this before.  It looks like a bad horror-syfy-original-movie digital font. What makes this tube odd is that the center supports in the [...]

Okay, the last time I asked for help identifying an unknown device, you guys came through.  Even Evil Mad Scientist helped out (you guys rock.)  Well, I now have two Panaplex-style neon displays that I can’t seem to find that much information on.  Does anyone have any information on these or hints to where I [...]