We had to look up
nixie tubes on Wikipedia to fully understand this clock. When we did, what we took away was that the device is essentially a glowing gas tube shaped like a numeral, developed in the fifties. This series of clocks using the tubes fully capitalizes on the mid-century industrial charm.
One of our friends thinks it looks like it's counting down to armageddon, but we're not swayed. It's cool.
• Nixie Clocks at BDDW
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gorgeous!
we had a multimeter with nixie tube numbers in lab for a while. it was really quite lovely for a piece of equipment. they're really fun in person - sort of flickery.
Beautiful! But kind of creepy.
How much though?? The website doesn't seem to have any prices....
Reminds me of the ticker on the atom bomb that stopped at "007" at the end of Goldfinger.
ooo i love the first one
Very steampunk. Love 'em.
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Beautiful but you have to be rich.
The first clock pictured is $2400! I get that as a designer, you can set your price for what ever you think you're product is worth but, the really insulting part is that it would cost me $375 to have them ship it from NY to Los Angeles. Am I paying for a "One of a kind" shipping experience? I could buy a round trip plane ticket for less and pick it up myself.