Small Batch Artisan… Nixie Tube Watches?
Recently, a Kickstarter caught our eye that takes the idea of specialty watches and puts a unique twist on them. These watches feature Numitron tubes, a low voltage equivalent to Nixie tubes, as their only display.
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The name - TRON Modern Retro Watch - makes it clear that they are going for a clean retro-futuristic design, and the results do look great.
Some might find the two-digit display a little annoying, but it's hard to beat the novelty value of having a Nixie Tube on your wrist! You can back the TRON watch on its Kickstarter page.
Ian Buckley is a writer, musician, and perpetual tinkerer. Commonly found surrounded by hobby electrical components, he's also a keen programmer and likes to build crazy-sounding instruments with microcontrollers. In addition to Electromaker, Ian writes over at MakeUseOf and has bylines at the likes of Online Tech Tips as well as Help Desk Geek.
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