Here's one for your inner geek!

[red930]

Not practical. Not efficient. Not compact. Not pretty.

 

Sounds like perfect geek material to me...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/26/all-tub...-in-the-making/

 

If you want to read the whole story, google does a good job of translating the original page.

[red930]

Looks beautiful to me!

 

The all-tube clock may not be compact, effiicient or practical yet it does bring back fond memories a bygone era where tube reigned.

 

I still prefer tube amps and turntables over semi-conductor based units.

[calvintang]

isnt it fragile? how are you gonna shut the alarm off?

swat it with your hand ?

[red930]

Looks beautiful to me!

 

The all-tube clock may not be compact, effiicient or practical yet it does bring back fond memories a bygone era where tube reigned.

 

I still prefer tube amps and turntables over semi-conductor based units.

 

Kids these days and your distortion.

 

I actually looked into building one of these a while back when I wanted to build a tube amp, but decided it would be far to costly. Someday, perhaps.

[smolt]

I still got a 2KW HF amp (Ham) that uses tubes. still works grate all though 7950 tubes are getting harder and harder to come by

[PL4YD34D]

some people and too much time - oh hows that saying go.....