Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 5, “Power Hungry“
00:30 Ebon Moss-Bachrach will be be playing Ben Grimm in the 2025 Fantastic Four movie
01:00 Joe records his temperature with a BD Rapid Digital Thermometer. I remember recording my temperature every morning for a few weeks in 2020, the pandemic quantified self.
01:55 Joe’s phone is a black Motorola RAZR V3xx AT&T-variant (2006) in a case
15:07 Joe’s colleague is watching the news on an Insignia NS-7HTV digital mobile TV (2007)
19:17 Fischer’s Interpol file gives his height as “1.7526 meters” which implies an unlikely degree of precision (or just a conversion from 69 inches). It also gives his weight as both 64.38kg and 175lb, which is 15kg out.
25:30 Charlie wears an RSA SecurID 700 Authenticator on a lanyard
26:50 I associate the angular phone style with the 80s, but the AT&T Cordless Telephone 5600 in Joe’s apartment is from 1994.
29:43 Walter places the cassette into a Tascam 112mkII deck (1994). The titrator-looking device on top of the hifi rack is a Metrohm 743 Rancimat (2006) for oxidation and thermal stability measurement
30:48 Walter separating out the magnetic signature is basically the same theory as audio source separation. Back in 2008 this was still quite tricky, but these days companies have trained models that can quickly pull apart audio sources into their constituent parts. For example, “Stemz” – a service for DJs .
38:19 Astrid’s phone is a BlackBerry Curve 8300 (or 8310)
46:14 Did Olivia tell the FBI that the reason she broke into a building without a warrant is that she saw a ghost?
47:38 John Scott’s lockbox contains military dog tags bearing the name “John Doe”