26
Aug
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 photos below. Learn more here. Read more
30
Apr
Minitron / Pinlite
I found a few cool misprinted minitron style 7 segment incandescent displays. Essentially, they are numitrons that are in a flat pack. As best I can tell, they were primarily used in the aviation industry because of their dependability and durability. I’ll take some more photos of them in use after I figure out their pin out. Stay tuned. Read more
30
Aug
ALCO MS-250AC
This is a follow up to my post on the Alco MSM-5a from about a month ago. This is an unexceptional mosaic readout display but the major differences, that I can tell, between this and the 5A is that this one is a little bit smaller, it cannot be easily disassembled and it includes a red filter to color the display. These were purchased from Surplus Shed for $2.50/each. Read more
16
Jun
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 different than the LCD monitor you’re using to read this. Instead of having the light be emitted from the display, light is reflected off of it like newspaper or any other printed medium. However, they have an amazing contrast ratio between black and white giving them a distinct advantage in legibility and making reading them on a sunny day easy. Read more
9
May
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 buzzer. But let’s face it – you’re buying this for the display 
I love this thing – I want one!
More photos and website description after the jump
7
Apr
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.
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6
Apr
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 the videos after the jump.
4
Apr
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.
28
Mar
Samsung Approximation Clock
By John Smout / Clock-It / Price Unknown
I found this clock while searching for clocks to feature and reminds me a lot of the Verbarius clock. It is a large VFD display that spells out the time and appears to be able to display other information. Sadly, it seems that only four of these clocks were ever made. Go check out Clock-It now, he has some good stuff there.Samsung VFD display in grey metallic finish case Read more
27
Mar
Elektronika 7
A clock so unique it has its own Wikipedia entry
I found one of these clocks on eBay a while ago and shamelessly stole the images from it, from Wikipedia and from one other source (below.) They are old VFD Matrix displays that have become somewhat of a collector item. Since Wikipedia has a good description I will let them describe it:
Electronics 7 are industrial clocks with luminescent indicators where each figure was formed by four or eleven 7-segment lamps. For each indicator there was a board decoding the binary code sent by the main board. There were also models based on light-emitting diodes . The basic shortcoming of the clocks was that the segments of the display were gradually burnt out, and there was a significant difference in a luminescence between more often and less often displayed segments. It usually happened after ten or more years of continuous work. All the street and wall clocks were based on the kit by Saratov factory “Reflector” and even now are used in many administrative and industrial premises in Russia. The clocks were made on the basis of vacuum-fluorescent indicators manufactured in Russia.