Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at noon Pacific for The Art of Nixies Hack Chat with Dalibor Farný! When they were invented in the 1950s, Nixie tubes were a huge leap forward in display technology.

[Andrew] built a light box for an exhibition last year that displayed different colors statically. After showing it off, it went unchanged but future improvements remained in the back of his mind.

A 4-pin plastic base with glass T-shaped envelope. Radiation symbol stamped on envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Cold cathode tube made by Western Electric for use in modern [about 1962] telephone ...

There hasn't been an innovation in X-ray imaging in more than 120 years. This mid-cap medical device company seeks to change that -- with a bit of a caveat. At issue is its invention of a cold cathode ...

In a quest for cheap under-cabinet lighting, the owner of the kitchen pictured above turned to cold-cathode tubes intended for the inside of a PC case. The result of his experimenting is a kitchen ...

David Manners has more than forty-years experience writing about the electronics industry, its major trends and leading players. As well as writing business, components and research news, he is the ...

Vancouver Island artist Kyle Miller has found a new use for an old technology, using Soviet-era , cold cathode Nixie tubes to build displays for handmade, steampunk clocks. "The biggest appeal of a ...

A cold cathode is a cathode in a gas-filled electron tube that is not heated by a filament. The voltage potential within the tube is sufficient to ionize the gas and cause the current to flow. For ...

Hi, I bought a pair of these lights for PC's which are supposedly cold cathode tubes (in a funky blue colour).<BR>What I am noticing is that when the CPU is fairly busy, the lights flicker a bit. Its ...