If you wished your lightsaber could tell you the time, Urwerk has now got your back. For around $60,000, the limited edition SpaceTime Blade clock uses good old Nixie tubes to display a quirky ...

But Nixie tubes don’t really go bad, so he was hopeful that the process would pay off. The unit is a modular display of some kind, clearly meant to plug into a larger assembly.

I chose a Nixie tube clock kit, from B&F Enterprises in Peabody, MA (it was 1972). It’s on the bench right now, while I debug a leading digit problem and convert it to 24 hour time. Those ...