GPS controlled nixie tube clock

Before being replaced by LED displays, nixie tubes --glowing bottles of ionized gas-- were used as indicating devices in many instruments.

Jeff Thomas likes them so much that he used them to build the Nixie Clock which incorporates GPS Satellite receivers for timekeeping precision.

Posted by Ocean on del.icio.us/tag/technology.

I'd much prefer the digital watch on legs by Swedish designers FRONT...

via k10k.
Interview of the designers by Beverly Tang in Archinect.

but my favourite clock of the moment is still the one created by Yugo Nakamura.