Photo: MIRAIKAN: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
On 11 June, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. unveiled a 6-meter-diameter organic-light-emitting display (OLED) globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo. The Geo-Cosmos display comprises more than 10 000 OLED panels. The interactive globe can be programmed to show global climate patterns, the locations of different species, and the impact of extreme weather events such as the March 2011 tsunami that struck Japan.











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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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