The Aesthetics Technologies Lab at Ohio University has created Biomodd, a great example of video-gaming-outside-the-box. As their website describes it:

Biomodd is a social and interactive art project that brings together ecology, game culture and installation art. The work tries to visualise and rework the intricate relation of organic life, technology, pleasure and consumption. Inspired by the case modding scene, a monumental custom computer is bult as a form of expanded sculpture. Inside the case, excess heat of overclocked processors is recycled by an elaborate living ecosystem. The computer hardware is used as server for a new computer game. The objective of this game is to bring some of the main themes of Biomodd into an imaginative multiplayer game experience.

So get this – they’re using the heat from the aforementioned overclocked processors to grow plants within the case. I’m loving the idea of using the effluent from our overheated PCs to sustain life. Cool – clever – creative.