From “The Future of Light”
INAHO is an array of freestanding LED bulbs
shaped like golden ears of rice, which glows
and gently leans towards people as they
approach. INAHO, which means “ear of rice”
in Japanese, is composed of LEDs encased
in golden tubes fixed to the end of threemillimeter-
wide carbon fibre columns that
imitate rice stems. Tiny perforations in the
tubes distribute the light into a smattering
of blurry dots reminiscent of a rice paddy
field, while movement sensors within the
base of each stem direct the golden tips in
the direction of passing people. Installation
creators Hideki Yoshimoto and Yoshinaka
Ono of Tangent: studio wanted to create
the impression of golden ears of rice slowly
swaying in the wind.
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