There is a LOT more to Thomas Dolby than his mega global hit "She Blinded Me With Science."

And it seems that while Dolby is more than willing to continue tickling audiences with that infectious '80s hit virtually every time he steps in front of a paying crowd, he is not having any difficulty appealing to newcomers and hard-core fans with his occasionally silly and otherwise expertly crafted new raft of new material.

From the delightful hootenanny that is "The Toad Lickers" to the atmospheric epic of "17 Hills" the distance between some of Dolby's earliest creations and the material he has produced in the past year or two is, in a word, galactic.

Not that his latest Time Capsule Tour is lacking novelty, however. Hey, where else can you go today and leave a videotaped message to the aliens Dolby believes will inhabit earth after the demise of mankind?

Look no further than Dolby's shiny Time Capsule, a chrome- and brass-plated road trailer that seats three. With handcrafted leather, wood fittings and complex electrical wiring that could have been designed by Nikola Tesla, it resembles a little rolling time-travel machine.

Anyone who arrives early for Dolby's March 30 stop at The Ridgefield Playhouse will be invited to visit the high-tech video recording suite within to upload a personal video message to the Future. The capsule will capture hundreds of 30-second clips over the course of Dolby's current 16-city tour, to be assembling them into an eventual online video montage.

The clips will also be uploaded to the individual user's own Facebook and Twitter pages. The most viewed clips will even win prizes, including a limited-edition remix CD of material from Dolby's new project.

In a recent chat with The Newtown Bee, Dolby said the idea to create the time capsule trailer was similar to an interactive online game he launched ahead of the new CD release, which welcomed fans from around the world to create new societies in a post-apocalyptic world of floating cities.

"I wanted to generate some additional excitement around the tour, and figure out a way to carry over the atmosphere of the game," Dolby said. "The show that I'm doing is really about the music - there's no effects, no projections -  it's just about the songs and the stories behind those songs."

But when he did a limited tour last fall to coincide with the launch of A Map of the Floating City, Dolby said fans who participated in the online game were showing up at his shows in costumes that portrayed their survivalist alter-egos.

"They would all arrange to get together before the shows and so on," Dolby said. "And they were often trading items from the game like Spam tins and mechanical birds and the like. So when I first set eyes on that tear-drop little trailer I immediately thought this was something from the era of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne."

Dolby contracted assistance from a metal sculptor in Houston who fashioned some of the futuristic exterior outfitting, and he tapped a longtime friend and DJ who fashioned the interior equipment that will capture the hundreds of hours of messages to the future he expects to amass.

"I think the most popular clips will go up on [an online] video channel called TimeCapsule.tv, but I'm probably going to shut it down on December 14, which is when the world is supposed to end anyway," Dolby added. "The most popular at that point, if we're still around, will go into a time capsule itself - which is kind of the artifact that will come from this."

Dolby said he is already in talks with several associates who either have access to, or actually own their own spacecraft, which could rocket the messages directly into the cosmos.

"So along with them, we should be able to figure out the best thing to do with the content,"Dolby said.

Check out the full interview with Thomas Dolby at NewtownBee.com, under the Features tab.

Tickets for the Ridgefield stop on Thomas Dolby’s Time Capsule Tour are $35, and they can be reserved by calling 203-438-5795 or online at RidgefieldPlayhouse.com. Or visit ThomasDolby.com to keep tabs on the artist, himself – while there’s still time.