New Gadget: Mad Scientist's Backpack

Sometimes inspiration comes from out of the blue. It can be something you have seen or heard the other day, a memory, or it jumps kinda in your face - like in the case of my Mad Scientist's Backpack!

Please meet the Mad Scientist's backpack!

Half of the inspiration for it comes from this fun little trailer here with cute and nerdy (and pretty mad) scientists:

The other half was induced by the theme for last Saturday's Z&A dance: Weird Science!

I guess its no surprise that something in my brain clicked. And it was so much fun to build and dressing up myself for the party - and actually wearing it that night!
I might have went a bit mad with adding more and more fun things to it - including an authentic steampunk license plate!

You can pick up the Mad Scientist's Backpack now at the Marketplace and at the Drow Science Showroom!

Steam: The Hunt XI - Realms of The Deep

One of the dates in the SL-year I am looking forward the most is the Steampunk Hunt, or Steam: The Hunt, as its friends call it!

This year's theme was quite a welcome opportunity for me to do something new, since I never really delved (or dived!) into nautical things - and doing something new keeps us on our toes!

I rather quickly decided to make a small deep sea exploration submarine. It helped of course that it is a vehicle (and who knows me, knows, I love building vehicles), but they also have a natural cuteness and a quite distinctive design - and last but not least is there this famous novel about a Captain and his submarine by Jules Verne... so its hard to find a more steampunky turn to the theme really!

Another novelty is that this miniature is wearable, so it will accompany you everywhere you go - no matter how deep you dive!

Steam: The Hunt starts March 1 and will go throughout the whole Month. For more information, check out their blog.

The submarine will be available at the Drow Science Show-room (the hint is rather easy, so no worries, you will find it!).