nixie

Hi, Nixie looks super cool, but without a spec it's really hard to tell how useful it is.

They want someone who knows which knob to turn until all the nixie tubes light up.

At least nothing in this video makes me believe that Nixie would be available any time soon, for an affordable price.

Also the demo video shows shots from what appears to be a drone; is it the actually Nixie, or is it another drone used to exemplify what the Nixie would be able to do?

Those are dekatron[1] gas-discharge (neon) tubes, the machine version of the human-readable Nixie lamps.

I'd be much happier with 30v next to my skin rather than 300v for a nixie, that's for sure.

Not sure about vacuum tubes, but Nixie tubes were used until the 90s.

It's not a Moto 360, it's actually his famous Nixie tube watch.

Most vintage Nixie tubes are from the former Soviet Union.

If they added battery packs which the Nixie could recharge from to compensate then it kind of defeats the point of it being wearable and so portable.

You could add nixie (flynixie.com) to that list.

Personally I prefer to code on an array of Nixie tubes.

It's useful to mention that Nixie was an entry to Intel's "Make it Wearable" competition.

"If they added battery packs which the Nixie could recharge from to compensate then it kind of defeats the point of it being wearable and so portable." Would depend on how it's done, of course, but just because something is able to use battery packs doesn't force me to carry them with me all the time.

If people are interested in Nixie, some of them are probably also interested in Gadget Hunt.

Nixie won some money from Intel for their proposed design.