The time is...NIXIE!

What’s a Nixie tube? The first step to conquer the world..in retro mad scientist style!

Wikipedia explains:

"A nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information, in the form of a glass tube containing multiple cathodes and a wire mesh anode, filled with neon and often a little mercury and/or argon (a Penning mixture, for lower striking voltage) at a small fraction of atmospheric pressure. Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on heating of a cathode to cause it to emit electrons (the thermionic effect). It is therefore called a cold-cathode tube, a form of gas filled tube, a variant of neon lamp."

Sounds scary doesnt it?

Have you ever seen one? NO? Thats why we are here!
Lo and behold!

The nixie clock by Ryan Brooks:

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Awesome...