If you ’ve got nice bonding skills , a easygoing spot for dated 1950s engineering , and $ 150 cauterise a pickle in your air hole , thisDIY Nixie desk clock kitwill let you have what gadget lust was like for your grandparents .
Before LEDs , Nixie tubeswere used as numeric electronic readout on everything from lab equipment , to calculators , to watches . But these mean solar day , they really only serve as a way for us to nostalgically search back at the gadgets of yesteryear . And more significantly , to cue us to be very grateful for the LED and LCD exhibit technology we now have admission to .
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And while there are lots of Nixie metro clock option for you to spend your money on , this one is particularly invoke with its adorable exposed electric circuit instrument panel — not to mention there ’s the gratification of knowing you build it yourself . [ ThinkGeek ]
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