Runs on Farnsworth Rays

Appropriately enough, one of Artie's gizmos is a video communicator dubbed "The Farnsworth:"

“This is basically a video cellphone and it was invented by Philo Farnsworth, the unrecognized inventor of television,” Simkins says. “We imagined that Philo invented it one weekend in 1929, it worked, and it’s been in the warehouse ever since. One reason they still use it is that the technology is so old, no one can hack it. It’s not digital. I don’t even know what it runs on but it’s untraceable because the Farnsworth exists totally off the grid.”


I don't remember where I found this, but I believe it was in an article in either msnbc or wikipedia. I don't remember who Artie is..........