tkISO

 A new item, a collab between [H]arsh and the people over at Thinkkink tonight.

 To be exact - Darien Caldwell did the mesh, the animations come form Daisy Creations, the hair from Damona Kanik, and the coding done by Ilana Debevec and  Chloe1982 Constantine.

 I've being asked not to call it a drone suit, but an ISO

 Appearance


 When you first put it on, you'll be smooth, shiny, and coated in white latex. You have a choice of 32 built in colours on top of that, and its mod, so you are free to recolour it to your hearts content using the RGB system.

 On top of that, its in a series of parts, so you can recolour individual pieces, like the head, faceplate, hair, etc, or via mod even turn them invisible. You'll need another Alpha if you do that, but allows you to adjust it to fit a lot of other pieces of gear if you so wish.

 However, you then have the option to switch to a materials textured outfit, by hitting the Seamed option. Aside from the faceplate, this then appears to be a nice, tight catsuit with attached openfaced hood, and is perhaps one of the best examples of how much a difference a materials texture makes. Seriously, people who leave materials off are missing out when it comes to stuff like this.

 Its fitted mesh, which will generally stick to your shape, buts its far from a flawless system still, so the alpha will more than likely be needed.

 Unlike most outfits of this type, this ones heels aren't ballet, and while still tall, and built into the suit, seem far more reasonable for the kind of long term wear you'd be forced to do in such an outfit. Quite a refreshing change. If you want ballets, well you can hide the boots via Edit, and adjusting transparency.

 You can hide the faceplate via edit as well, if you find a face only alpha, you might be able to get it to look quite good, though I have a few issues with my headshape, its still worth a try.

Function

 You need to wear both the suit and the hud that comes with it if you want to speak, a precaution to prevent issues such as the particle effect objects make when speaking. It also does not seem to block IM by default, as it should be. You'll also have a HUD pop up when locked in, to simulate the faceplate. It makes a not bad photoframe.

 The first option is Style, which is where you cover the stuff mentioned above, such as switching between seamed and seamless modes. Following that is Locking. In here are three options. Lock does as it says, Unlock as well, and as for Public.. well, you'll be in danger unless you are very careful. You'll be locked out of the menu completely, and at the mercy of anyone nearby. There's also Privileged which only appears if/when you add someone to that system via the Operators menu, covered below. This also locks you out of the menu, but only allows people added to the suit to access it.

 Restrict is a big menu. There are four submenus within, each related to a specific part of you. Talk lets you adjust how clearly you speak, as well as adjust the IM restrictions. It also adjusts emotes, but not by themselves, so sadly if you want to garble your speaking, your emotes will be garbled as well. This needs a fix

 Move doesn't hobble, but adjusts things such as TP, flying, sit, etc, and also has another submenu, Freeze. In here you can set a distance, and whether they need to be within a certain range, or far enough away. You get a 30 second window to fulfill the requirements, with gradually more and more restrictions, the last two of which are IM block and being unable to move.

 See adjusts things such as names, the map, etc, with a submenu for View which has a selection of windlight options that the captive will have to suffer through. Most are quite jarring, and make somethings harder to see, as you might expect. There doesn't appear to be a clear option.

 Lastly we have Touch which has three different menus inside. As you might expect, it has options for stopping far touch, touch self, etc if you choose to do so, as well as allowing or preventing you from adding clothes and attachments, and inventory related restrictions. When you activate a touch restriction, the gloves change into snug little mitts.

 As the wearer, your next menu is Timer, the classic, ever nice option. You can choose to add or remove via a couple of buttons at the bottom, anywhere from 5 minutes to.. 28 days. It has a second menu that allows you turn the timer on/off or pause it, as well as letting you swap between RL and SL time, and a restart option. Timer for 28 days.. 27 days and 23 hours later, your captor accidentally hits restart.. I'll leave your reaction up to your own imagination.

 The final menu is Operators, mentioned above. This is where you can add or removed "privileged" people who can access the suit at any time, locked or not. There's also a Banned list, which stops them ever access it, even when on public, an extremely handy option as far as I am concerned, and one more restraints should use.

 As another user, should the person be on public, you get two options when you first try to access it. Take over and Walk away. Both are self explanatory. You also have a Relinquish option in the locking menu, that leaves them stuck on public, but you no longer control them.

 Once inside, you have access to the first four menus covered above, as well as two new ones, Punish  and Rename. Punish lets you choose form three options, and torments the persons breasts, rear or "Da Monkey" as they call it. Its not a stretch to guess what area that is. They have some custom animations, of you clutching the afflicted area and rolling around, as well as some sound effects. Mostly zapping and muffled cries.

 Rename opens an input box that you type a name you want in, which will then appear as "ISO/<your text>". If a timer is running, you can only add to it, or Punish the wearer while its on public.

 As privileged, you can access at any time, as well as give more people access, ban people, change the lock type or relinquish it, freely adjust the timer, etc.

Other info

 I've being informed that updates are planned, for free of course. If it lacks something now, don't worry as it may get it added in an update soon.

My thoughts

 I like it. That's pretty much a given. Hopefully the updates will make the hood more functional with the faceplate hidden, to make it even more customizable than it is already. The *big* issue is that emote blocking when you garble. Lets hope that gets fixed quickly. Otherwise my only real gripes are the hair, when set to black, is more grayish, but is mod so not a major issue, and the IM block during freeze.

It costs 1199 Linden

Pic 1- A selection of reds, showing off  various parts you can adjust, using Seamed

Pic 2 - As it is out of the box, white, with black hair. Seamless mode

Pic 3 - The hud, mitts, with hood hidden. Also Seamed (needs a different alpha to the included.) Sorry its a bit dark, the restrictions and all

TK lifestyles Colourable Panel gag

Okay, technically its colorable panel gag, but I'm British, we actually spell it properly over here.

Appearance

 So.. its made using normal prims, not Mesh. And there's a lot of them. This means if you need to resize it to fit, expect to have a lot of little fiddly prism to adjust. Fitting this to my head was rather difficult as a result.

 The design appears to be based on Dari's old panel gag, with some adjustments of course, and all new build. As the name suggests, you can change its colour. In the colour (color) menu, you can choose which part you want to adjust (of which there are either), or choose to do the whole lot. It has some unusual colour schemes, and has 34 colours built in for the bulk of the gag, while the metallic prims have 8. The prims are also mod, so you can freely recolour that way as well. Just make sure it set it to white first. You can also add shine this way.

Function

 This ones party piece is that it scans other RLV restrictions beforehand. So if you for whatever hand have two gags on, only one set of garble will appear. If you are stuck only able to whisper, the gag will also whisper, etc.
 
 As always, the top left to bottom right method. First option is lock, really self explanatory. Locking this one does not really change the menus from what I can see. Second option is the always useful timelock, which frankly should always be included in gear these days. there is no excuse not to. This timelock can be quite extreme, you can add a minimum of 5 minutes, and a max of 28 days at once.

 Hide gag is next, a handy one for people who like to play without their restraints always appearing. Very handy for RP and those that want more interaction I find (or just prefer to be subtle?). Expose follows, pretty much opening you up for kidnap by anyone. Be careful in public sims with it of course.

 Options.. In here we have two IM related options. Full out block, which should be banned, and Wait. Wait means others have to IM you first. While better, I have heard stories from friends who have fallen out over this one, each one thinking they are being ignored by the other, so be careful with it.

 Also in the options menu we have Severity (how strict the gag is), which has the four usual. each one stricter than the last, with the fourth completely silencing you. There's a penalty option, for speaking while gagged. Adds to the timelock, with a max of 60 minutes being penalised.

 The Drool menu is a bit different, giving you an input box to adjust how rapidly drool flows from the gag. 0 stops it. I'm not sure what the upper limit is, but I tried 99999 and it went a bit nuts. Lastly in this menu is colour (color), which is covered above.

 We have owner next, back in the main menu. Its fairly simple. Add one, remove one, and list em. You can adjust the text command prefix, (default is /61<initials>menu. I.E /61awmenu. You can also do /61*menu, which will make EVERY sub nearby wearing the gag have their menu pop up for you. Lastly is Name, what you put in here will be displayed when you try to talk while gagged.

Scores

NOTE - I may be dropping these soon, they feel kind of unneeded. The point of these reviews is to tell people what the gear can do and what it looks like, not put a static number to it. If you want me to keep them, then TELL ME. If no one protests, then the scores can go as far as I am concerned.

Appearance - 7/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 349 linden

ThinkKink Pet pod

I'm not dead! Just sometimes feels like it. RL is a bitch.

Quality

First up - Its MESH! Don't buy if you're old fashioned and are on those crappy non-mesh enabled viewers.

Its.. a pet carrycage, the type you'd keep a dog in I feel. Although a great deal larger, with nice little windows cut out so the sub gets some light and of course the wire mesh locking door.

In terms of appearance editing, you start with beige. Moving in via the >Devie then Chameleon menu however lets you choose between a grand total of 9 colours. Baby Blue, Baby Pink, Banana, Beige, Grape, Grey, Lime, Melon and Orange.

There are 5 poses built in, Attract, Feed, Lay, Panic, and Snooze. Each one has a little message that accompanies it, and Feed also rezzes a good bowl in the cage. When locked, two padlocks also appear.

Function

Your very first option is Open Door. When you do this, a new option also appears, graboid, with Close Door appearing where Open was before. The graboid has soem fancy settings.. You can set its range of course, and try to have it grab someone,b ut you can also set its Accuracy. Turn this down and it seems the victim can 'dodge' the grab.

Under >Device you get the meat of the pod. first up, in caps, is >TRAPMODE, in here you can obviously turn on whether or not it grabs people by itself. You can also adjust what RLV settings are applied, including chat muting and deafening (Stopping you speak, and stopping you hear), IM blocking (NO!), whether it auto locks or not, and Forceview, which forces your camera to a specific place.

Next in the device menu is options. Some basic stuff, turn RLV on or off, adjust language, etc. theres Hide button, which hides the TK logo above the cages door, Chameleon, mentioned above in Quality,  Access, again self explainitory, lets you adjust who can access the toy.

Then theres Clr Wanted, which clears all 'outstanding warrents' as the machine puts it. From how I understood it, if you hit this while someone is logged off, it will nto regrab them when they log back in, and other such things.

Back on the Main Menu, we have timer next. In here you can of course adjust how long the person inside is locked for. You can also adjust the penalty (which increases the timer if the captive touches the pod or leaves mouselook when its forced), or turn it off, as well. Under settings you can put on some fancy timer things. P. Normal is your basic timer, tells you how long is left. P. Excluded shows the original timer, then the penalty time seperatly. Count Up reverses teh way the timer works, starting from 0 and going up to whatever the duration the timer is set for. Random does any of the above.

You can also set E.Eject, which boots the captive out when the timer is done. Handy for traps.

Lastly on the Main Menu is >>> Get, which gives you some items. You can get the TK manual, some help NCs, a paddle, some cuffs, a whip, the store LM and of coruse a toy of an intimate nature.

On all menus is -Cancel-, which closes the menu.

Once your victim climbs in, a lot mor emenus appear, first of which is pose, covered above. Both the victim and the captor get access to the Perfect Pose menu, something covered in a previous blog, that ultimately lets you adjust wher eyou are int he pod, and affects all the pods in SL for your avatar. Saves your Avatars data server side.

Theres also >Avatar. In here you can adjust the RLV settings, strip your captive, force them into mouselook and mess with the arousal menu, which lets you sexually toy with them. Tad explicit for me to go into too much detail, I want to keep a G rating, but I will say it supports Xcite.

Other stuff

Like all TKs toys now, its copy! So you can put up an entire kennels worth if you like.

I was wearing the DStech latex puppy gear along with the MB latex surrender catsuit in this shoot. The other model was Lyra, a friend of mine whos also on DA.

Scores
Quality -  Looks pretty nice, some decent poses and colour options - 7/10
Function - Does a lot, everything it needs to and then a little - 9/10
Price - 299 linden - 8/10

ThinkKink - Screwn Post (Rustic)

This is my first proper furniture review (the vaccube was differant), so bear with me. Also later than promised, but I'm no good at this scheduling malarky.

Quality

You can adjust its appearance in the Chameleon menu under >Device Egyption, Dungeon, Weathered and Cabot

Dungeon is a wooden post. Quiet a dull wooden colour, the kind you'd expect in a dockside kidnappers hut I'd say.  Up thte top it changes to metal that looks rusted, with a metal ring bolted into it, also somewhat tarnished. The TK logo is also up there, just above the ring.

Weathered is similar, but a whitewood.  Egyptian completed chanegs it to a stone post with carvings and a golden cap, and Cabot makes it look a lot more looked after, varinished wood, non-rusted, etc. See pics for more details. Upper left is Cabot, right is Egyption. The lower left is Weathered and lower right is Dungeon.

Function

This was hard to test, like most furniture it requries two people to do so properly, as such a friend of mine is also shown in the pics tied to the post.

Lets see.. The First option is >Device . In there the first thing to catch your eye will likely be >TRAPMODE. In here you can turn on the Trap, as well as certain RLV restricitons, specifically ForceView and Chat and IM Muting/deafening

Under >Options, you can adjust the Language it uses, its Range, whether RLV is on or off, and mute the post in local. You can also update and reset it here. Back in the main menu, you can hide the TK logo on the top, and there is of course the menu for changing its appearance between the four types. Theres also Clr Wanted, which removes all current "Warrents." More on this later.

The next menu lets you adjust whoc an access the post. Its pretty self explanitory. You can add or remove people as needed, set it to group, etc. Then tehres >Arousal. In ehre you can turn Xcite on or off, stimulate yoru victim, etc. Not gonna go too deep into details, want to keep my G rating and all.

The Graboid menu is next, and allows you to set how far the post will scan for a victim, then let you gran one within that range, upt o a max of 60m.

Under>>>Get, you can get the manual for the post, a relay, a relay help card, the store LM, a whip, a paddle, and some basic cuffs. Handy stuff.

Once you get someone on the post, you get a few ore menus. First is >Avatar. In here you can eject them from the post, force into mouselook (ugh) or strip (doubleugh). Then theres perfect pose. Now I spoke to the owners about this, and apparently they are putting in a system that uplaods a specific avatars position on the post to a server, and will always rebind the avatar in the correct place, so you don;t lower the pose for one person, then have the next hop on with their legs through the ground. Each person has their own pose rememebred. Handy.


It has 5 poses built in, some pretty basic but still nice ones. Nothing overly special. You can hang them by their wrists, bind them with their back to the room, with their back to the post, more tightly to the post and up on the tips of their toes.

You get a further 10 poses if a second person sits on the post, opening up the >Action menu instead of >pose. For various reasons involving the nautre of these poses, I won't go into too much detail.

 Lastly you can lock and unlock it.

Now this post is Copy/Mod. As far as i know, thats a pretty big deal, as you can throw as many down as you like. Theres also 4 differant posts in total, aside from the Rustic I was given to test.

Its also 11 prims, not many, so handy for those little skyboxes.

Scores

Quality - Pretty nice detail, not much customiation - 7/10
Function - Does some basic stuff, decent amount . - 7/10
Price - 995 linden. Its Copy/mod, so I guess that ramps it up? - ?/10

The price i have no clue on. If it was a worn restraint, I'd score it pretty low for the balance of customization and functionality with that pricetag, but my lack of knowledge in this area makes it hard to score. I'll leave that up to the poeople who buy these things regular, at least until I get a few more pieces to properly gauge them against.