The bar has been officially raised on totems to the legacy of old school gaming courtesy of a gaming mod that marries pimp aesthetics with Cylon-esque sinister metal gloss.

So, you want a lamp that's got a bit more character than your standard-issue lighting source. Well, it doesn't get much more unique than this stunning Nuke Lamp.

Getting away from its normal application in the mobile device world, augmented reality gets a different sort of treatment in a new exhibition called the "Augmented Window: A Sensory Observatory."

No matter what side you fall on — whether you think video games already are art, or never could be — the fact of the matter is that without that classification, games were denied key protections and benefits enjoyed by movies, music and the like. Well, no longer: the National Endowment for the Arts is accepting games for the first time.