A personal atomic clock.

I take a lot of product photos for my work on TubeClockDB.com.  Every product Ir review gets a full set of photos before I even begin to produce the video review.  These are some of my favorite images.

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 [...]

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).

It is no secret that I like oddball display tubes and today I present to you the National 54362 two digit nixie tube.  That’s right, there are two distinct and independently controllable digits inside of this device.  On the lefthand side there are standard SI prefixes and on the right side there units – Hz, and Seconds. [...]

Here is a little gadget that 1) is cool and 2) could burn down your house.  SCIENCE!  But seriously, I want this gadget.  The Plasma Speaker is another Kickstarter product that has reached its funding goal but is still open for another 35 days.  Depending on the amount that you’re willing to invest, you could get a fully assembled [...]

Here is another eBay find that I thought was worth sharing.  This is a Wamco alphanumeric minitron display.  It is similar to a numitron in that it is also an incandescent filament display but the packaging is significantly different.  I believe these devices were primarily used in aviation because of their resilience but I’m having troubles backing up that belief with [...]

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 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 [...]