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Programmable Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD)

Posted by timothy on Monday December 30, 2002 @05:55AM from the dashboard-toy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is a review of a programmable Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD). It is used to monitor computer related stats e.g. temperture, voltages, uptime etc. The article can be found here. Looks like an interesting toy!"

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Price? by prockcore · 2002-12-30 06:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why is it that these hardware review sites never give the price? You would think that the price would be at least as important as Baud Rate or some of the other things they listed.
not very functional, but cool by ymi+here · 2002-12-30 06:16 · Score: 3, Insightful

The coolness factor goes without question.
What amazes me is that mods that look cool and do little to nothing are becoming so popular. This product at least has some functionality unlike lighted fans and all that jazz. Now the dust bunnies can have a real time stock ticker. Just need to mount a retractable rotating disco ball so the dust bunnies can get down after a long hard day.
Re:Just what I need to soup up my computer! by pixel_bc · 2002-12-30 11:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

> I mean, for well less than $100, I could
> pick up a crappy video card, and a 9"
> monitor to display status messages.

And for those of us that barely have space available for the PC we're using? I won't even get into the embedded applications of this... they *should* be obvious.