Matsushita - Panasonic - weird stuff

[kach22i]

I was clicking on some patents and found some interesting stuff which lead to some image searches. This is some of it.

Patent htm....................
http://www.google.com/patents?id=Cg...=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

Looks like a Magenpan cross mated to a dome tweeter.

Is this the same thing?
http://www.panasonic.com.sg/panason...tail/CorpPressReleaseDetail.asp?ContentId=145

How about this one?
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/NEA/archive/200206/190786/

The nano bass exciter
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20071024/141226/

More weird stuff: same as the "Touch Panel"?
http://www.soundimage.dk/Different-col/Flat.htm

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has developed a transparent panel speaker called "Sound Window" an industry-first speaker that reproduces sound by pneumatically vibrating a transparent panel using aerodynamic-drive technology.