So he thought of experimenting with those, and built a ‘Binoctular’ LED clock which uses the Neopixel rings as 7 segment displays. Each digit is made using one pair of Neopixel rings ...

[Peter Lehnér] has designed a brilliant 7-segment ... dot display at CES four years ago. Akin to flip-dots are flip-segment displays which do the same thing but with segments of a digit rather ...

A common display found on digital watches and readouts that looks like a series of 8s. Each digit ... one segment of the liquid crystal layer in a monochrome twisted nematic (TN) seven-segment ...