Well, the title alone shouldn’t surprise you.  I love startups.  I love open source, and I really love clocks.  So, when I found the ClockOS project on Kickstarter, I had to take a look.  It is a clock made out of 180 surface mount LED’s.  It may not be as practical as the designers say it is [...]

Let’s start with a story.  The Four Letter Word machine was invented in 1973 by Raymond Weisling.  The device was simple – it used 4x B7971 tubes to display random for letter words.  Of course, the draw to a device like this is that occasionally, one of the results would appeal to the prurient interests [...]

Here is something that you’ll appreciate.  It is an Infinity commercial that has a cameo by the Adafruit Ice Tube Clock (in addition to a bunch of other cool clocks).

This is a work-in-progress video of my collection.  The final version will have several more clocks, titles for each device, and more information.  All of these clocks are hand made even if they don’t look like it.  I did not include my mass produced clocks from Think Geek or other vendors (even if they are really cool…) [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…