Please identify this speaker

This is a photo (Mystery Speaker) of a speaker that appeared in two scenes of Hellboy 2. The movie came out in '08. Does anyone recognize this speaker? I saw it once myself, but I cannot remember its name or manufacturer or where I saw it.

If you can identify it, do you know anything about it? Were they any good? Presumedly, since they tried to make it look cool. Have they been superseded?

Thanks.