Love ’em or hate ’em, Nixies and the retro clocks they adorn are here to stay. At least until the world’s stock of surplus Soviet tubes is finally depleted, that is. The glow disc… ...

In the base of the display are 10 LEDs, each shining onto the side of a piece of acrylic. When an LED lights up, you can clearly see the corresponding number.

A Lixie is an edge-lit acrylic display that’s essentially an LED-based alternative to a Nixie tube. A Lixie is an edge-lit acrylic display that’s essentially an LED-based alternative to a Nixie tube.