Mother, tear up the Christmas list I sent you. Forget everything I said I ever wanted. I will never expect another gift again if you get me one of these.

It’s unlikely we’re alone in loving nixie tubes. Maybe it’s a nod to our technological forebears? A love of vintage technology, perhaps? Or just a tinge of sadness that we never operated any enormous, deadly, secret cold war machinery that, uh, also told the time?

Anyway, to help bring that orangey, reddish glow to your bedside table, or evil laboratory, designer Mike Mayberry is selling Kloks – DIY housing kits for nixie tube clocks.

And, like all great DIY kits, it comes with just enough pieces missing to make it worthwhile. What’s a home electronics project without a global search for components?

That’s my holidays sorted, then.

Klok [via Cool Hunting]