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Four Letter Word Generator by Peter Hand

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 [...]

IN-12 NixieKits.eu Preview

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 [...]

Segmentus clock concept

Segmentus clock (concept) By Art Lebedev – $n/a http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/segmentus/ From the guy who brought us the Verbarius clock comes the Segmentus.  (Is anyone else noticing a naming pattern here?) This concept clock was built to address the challenge of creating a digital clock with hands.  While clocks have addressed this challenge before, this one brings [...]

Phosphor Watch E Ink Digital Calendar

E Ink Digital Hour Clock Watch with Black Leather Band by Phosphor Watches $185.00 USD http://www.phosphorwatches.com/ My primary interest is still, and always will be, collecting Nixie Clocks.    However, I just found what is probably the first practical and mass produced e-ink watch.  I’ve you’ve never seen an e-ink display, they are quite a bit [...]

TubeClockDB Video

This is just a quick video I made for TubeClockDB.com.  Be sure to share the YouTube video link. Featured: Jeff Thomas / Nixichron Nixie Clock Jon Ellis / Nimimini Numitron Clock Konstantin Bodrenkov / IV-11 clock VFD Clock

Kosbo IV-11 VFD Clock

6 digits IV-11 VFD Clock with 2 Alarms. by Kosbo.com $Price Unknown / request only I just found this clock while doing a Google Image search for something completely unrelated.  It appears to be by eBay seller Sparkeltube.  It is a 6 discrete digit VFD based clock.  It has two alarm and a built in [...]

Matrix Cube Alarm Clock

By ThinGeek (OEM Unknown) $35 This is another gimmick clock but it is well executed and it looks nice.  Each HH MM SS display is separated in to its own cube with the controls on the HH.  They are teathered with a small wire and the whole device is powered via a mains transformer. More…

Exposed Flip Clock

ThinkGeek (OEM Unknown) $50 ThinkGeek just recently released a clock that is a little unusual.  Instead of focusing on weird LED displays or retro nixie tubes, they built a clock on a long-dead technology: flip clocks.  I could try and explain them but I think Wikipedia does a better job.  Read the description and see [...]

Numimini – Video Demo

By Jon Ellis / ~$150 via eBay Follow up to Numimini – Preview I just made a quick video demo of the software included bu Jon to program the clock.  Check it out.

Dot-Matrix Desktop Clock

by DealExtreme (OEM Unkonow) $70 USD I will be the first to admit that this clock is ugly.  The only thing that saves this clock is the well executed LED display.  It is unclear between the photos on DealExtreme.com whether this clock is orange or red, but I have seen videos and photos of both.