Fernando von Reichenbach

Fernando von Reichenbach (1931 – March 17, 2005) was an Argentine engineer and inventor.

Inventions

Some of his inventions were:

Catalina or graphic analog converter (1967): capable of synthesizing sounds following an analog score by a video camera.
System for inducing sleep (developed in conjunction with Dr. Fontana), by reproducing maternal prenatal sounds.
Ultrasonic drill.

gollark: Which bit? I'm not sure about the user experience bit, but it's harder to get more CPU than it is more GPU.

gollark: Also, decimal points would likely break basically everything in existence.

gollark: *But* would also probably make the user experience worse than just using a bit of the GPU.

gollark: I'm not sure if that would be better or worse than people wasting GPU power; it would possibly even it out a little?

gollark: Maybe you could use algorithms designed to only run on CPUs decently?

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