Vegetable Semiconductors

While looking for something else entirely, I came across this:

"The same group at Digital that brought us the world's fastest microprocessor has also developed the world's only known light-emitting horseradish rectifier. (Horseradish rectifers in general are uncommon, let alone light-emitting ones.) Read on:

Dr. Chudobiak,

I would like to direct your attention to a description of an experiment I conducted with colleagues at Digital Semiconductor a few years ago. We constructed a light emitting "diode" of sorts from a sample of horseradish kim-chi. It rectified. It emitted light. It emitted a stench that could raise the dead.

Matt Reilly (Ph.D.)
Principal Hardware Engineer
Alpha Products Group
Digital Semiconductor

More details at the Official Vegetable Semiconductor Page."

Sadly, the link is broken, and a quick Google elicits nothing of relevance. Anyone know anything about this potentially important technology?

Paul Burke
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