Mitsubishi creates giant OLED globe for Tokyo’s museum-goers, cloud gazers

Jun 1st 2011
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Mitsubishi creates giant OLED globe for Tokyos museum-goers, cloud gazers

This year, Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is celebrating its 10th anniversary — a milestone that Mitsubishi is commemorating with a large OLED globe. Produced from over 10,000 Diamond Vision OLEDs (each measuring 96 x 96mm), the six-meter ‘Geo-Cosmos’ installation will hang about 18 feet above the museum floor, where it is going to beam clouds and other satellite images at a resolution of 10 million pixels. It could not be the primary curved OLED we have seen from Mitsubishi, but it is the first that may double as a beautiful sick disco ball. The globe would be unveiled on June 11th, but you could head past the break for the whole PR, in addition to a picture of the beast while it was under construction.

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Mitsubishi Electric Installs 6-Meter OLED Globe at Science Museum

World’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen to be unveiled June 11

Tokyo, June 1, 2011 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has installed a six-meter organic light-emitting display (OLED) globe on the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. The OLED “Geo-Cosmos” display would be unveiled on the museum because the world’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen on June 11.

Hanging 18 meters from the ground, the globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimeters. Mitsubishi Electric used its scalable OLED technologies to create the globe, which replaces a globe comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs) to commemorate the museum’s 10th anniversary. The globe will display scenes of clouds and other visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite. Projections will feature resolution of greater than 10 million pixels, about 10 times more than that of the LED display.

Along with Mitsubishi Electric, which created the OLED system, three other companies helped to make the OLED Geo-Cosmos display: Dentsu Inc. undertook project planning, Go and Partners, Inc. developed the picture-processing and transmission system, and GK Tech Inc. created the spheroid design.

Going forward, Mitsubishi Electric will continue to expand OLED screen sales by leveraging its scalable OLED technologies enabling every kind of non-linear display applications.

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