The choreography, the music and Ted Coffey's eclectic, computer-assisted score are not always synchronized.
"The magic of the Media Lab is its ability to bring together researchers from an eclectic range of disciplines — engineers, computer scientists, artists, musicians, and others — who work together collaboratively to invent technologies that improve people's lives and transform society," says Frank Moss, Director of the Media Lab.
"You get used to it after a while," said 30-year-old Jack Herndon, a marketing director at Onsale, a cyberauction house that sells an eclectic array of goods, mainly computer equipment but also items like rattlesnake meat and a human-shaped inflatable rubber device used for boxing practice known as the Slam Man.
He joined an eclectic group of nanotechnology experts, computer musicians and game designers exploring cyberspace trends in a gleaming, postmodern building at the La Jolla campus.
They were an eclectic bunch that included a winemaker, a computer magnate, an investment banker and two lawyers.
It sounds like the world's most eclectic record collection, placing Radiohead's OK Computer next to the Johnny Mercer standard Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, with Steve Martin, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Lauryn Hill nearby.
Allen's sales, more than five times the amount he sold last year, come as the man Forbes magazine pegged as the third-richest American invests billions in myriad eclectic investments, from the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team to computer chip maker Transmeta Corp.
This year their eclectic projects will include fire-breathing robots, wearable computers, self-replicating three-dimensional printers (whatever they are) and giant motorised cupcakes.
Then, after an eclectic sale of decorative items and curios — including an original Apple computer, from 1976 — the house offers a selection of ancient jewelry: Roman cameos, Greek bracelets, and Visigoth rings discreet enough to wear while sacking Rome.
The real cognoscenti are turning on their computers rather than their televisions to watch an eclectic range in the Thatcher Archive.
Spanning the distance between Electronica and Acid House, his eclectic dance skills have even been employed to compose the soundtracks to Japanese computer games.
