Nixie Magic

Oooh, you know those neat looking count-down device you see in movies from the 1960s and 1970s? The tubes are cold cathodes called nixies.. the lcds of the day. Some dude had even made wristwatches out of the smaller tubes!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=nixie
http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/clockpage.html

Too bad they're out of production, rare, and expensive. Darn, all the good stuff is!