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more about #nixie more comments → EBone: Funny, my sixth grade graduation present was one of those 50-in-1 Radio Shack hobby kits like Woz describes. Built every thing you could with it. Wow ... more » Curves: I envy him his watch; its spectacular. I never knew what those were called "nixie" until reading this. One of my first electronic calculators used t... more » 92BuickLeSabre: For some reason this just kicked my respect for Woz up another notch. He was really responsive to the question asked. Instead of just listing some co... more » OMG! Ponies!: I like gears and things that clunk. I remember a variety of old typewriters I used to have and an old manual adding machine. The tactile feel of thin... more » fuchikoma: A couple of my notable gadgets are a Russian Kvarts DRSB-01 radiation detector - Geiger tube, but no actual counter. As a kid, I'd take a phone record... more » weatherman: For some reason I thought the Nixie Watch, which I coveted when first I saw it, was ridiculously expensive. But it turns out they're only $400 - not ... more » Brett Benedict: So what exactly is so special about that watch? I mean, it looks awesome and everything, but what makes it so attractive to the Woz and fellow techies? more » stryder100: Sweet. My earliest gadget was a germanium radio, something like [www.shinegallery.com] I slept in the basement and hooked up a little alligator clip... more » Dancing Milkcarton: 140 volts? That nixie watch is outrageous! more » Scott Lee: Interesting, how did Giz get a hold of the Woz? more » -
#nixieclocks
Concrete Nixie Clock Tells Time, Requires a Sturdy Table
Nixie clocks are pretty awesome. Nixie clocks in a concrete housing? Naturally a lot more awesome. It's a prototype for now, sadly, so you can't buy one. Yet. [Nixie Concrete via Like Cool] -
#memorablegadgets
My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
We're kicking off our series exploring memorable gadgets from memorable people with one of the most influential tech giants: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. – JC More » -
#diy
Nixie Tube Clock Kit Lets You Go Retro
MAKE's got three different DIY kits that you can buy to build your own Nixie Tube clock. If you're not familiar with Nixie tubes, you're obviously not reading us often enough. You can buy your own kit for $150, which is a small price to pay for something that's too bright and will keep you awake at night. Plus, you can pretend you live in a retro-futuristic Bat cave instead of the neo-Victorian three bed/two bath your wife picked out. [MAKE via Shiny Shiny] -
#wozmodo
Woz Explains His Sporting of Two of the Geekiest Watches Ever Created
Why would Woz wear a watch on each wrist? And what kinds of watches would a man with his finger on the pulse of the tech industry sport? Not your standard Timex, that's for damned sure. More » -
#gadgets
All-Tube Digital Clock
Nixie tubes, otherwise known as numicators, were hawt stuff back in the pre-LED/LCD 60s if you wanted to display numerals in their digital form. Now do-it-yourselfers are creating retro clocks using the things. We've seen lots of nixie clocks before, but this one is the Mother of All Nixie Clocks, using 103 tubes and taking the guy seven years to build. More » -
#gadgets
Nixie Clock Gallery
Nixie displays are the old tube-based displays that were widely used in electronics back in the 1960s to display numerals and symbols. Their retro style is what makes them attractive to do-it-yourselfers now. More » -
#gadgets
6502-Powered Nixie Clock
Today Ryan Brooks is our nerd hero of the day, and this is why: More »
