Designer Qian Jiang has come up with a cool and innovative concept for batteries. When your batteries are flat, simply wind them up and you’re gadgets are good to go agin.

Head over to the Yanko Design website for more photos of the Wind-Up Battery.

Poptone Cubic Puzzle Watch is the name of one of Casio’s slimmest timepiece to date. The colorful and playful watch features a long case with a custom designed LCD display and buttons arranged in a Tetris inspired layout at the bottom.

The rubber case and band make this a casual design but it’s functional too, with a stopwatch, alarm and date mode. With the added touch of an attractive animating display and patent white clasp, this is a modern design that you’ll love!

Features:

• Maximum wrist size: 190 mm (approx.)
• Case Dimensions: 29 mm x 52 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 25 grams
• Water resistance: 5ATM
• Stopwatch (1/100 seconds)
• Alarm
• Date mode
• 12/24 hour time
• Backlight

The Casio Cubic Puzzle Watch is available from the Tokyoflash website for $89.56.

Fatboy, a giant table lamp measuring over 35 inches in height, is guaranteed to bring you lots of light as the colder and darker winter days continues to creep up on us.

The strong and stately silhouette provides uniform light and radiates a quiet glow of home landscapes and interiors. Edison the Grand spreads opalescent materials magical beam that can stimulate your imagination when you read a book.

Immaculate finish and ingenious design make this lamp ideal for both indoor and outdoor use.

The Edison the Grand lamp is a available from the PID.se website for $910.

We have already featured a bunch of superhero cufflinks here at GeekAlerts, like Captain America, Wolverine Spiderman and Superman, so let’s throw in a nice Batman pair as well.

Each pair is made of finely polished platinum/rhodium alloy to ensure optimum smoothness of surface. Comes with a free gift box.

Dimensions approximately: 1.1 cm x 2.0 cm.

The Batman Cufflinks are available from the Cufflinks2Wear website for $84.15.

The New York watch manufacturer Nooka has teamed up with Undrcrwn, an footwear and apparel company based in Philadelphia, and released this fun and colorful timepiece.

The watch features a striped polyurethane band with a black ZenV display. Only 200 watches available.

Features:

• Water Resistance: 5ATM
• Functions: Date, Time
• Display: TDF LCD Display
• Case Material: Aluminum
• Case Back: Stainless Steel/Screw In
• Size: 35 x 35 x 10mm/Band Width: 28mm

The limited edition Nooka Undrcrwn Watch is yours for $275 from the Nooka online shop.

(Likecool via Prylfeber)

This colorful table will add a fresh and playful touch to your living room or office with its yo-yo inspired design and a wide range of beautiful colors.

The use of coloured light bulbs turns Lounge into an individual lighting object. The cable length can be adjusted and hidden away due to the smart storage design, integrated into the table.

The luminant design table that fills any environment with atmospheric light. The brightness can be changed by a dimmer control.

Product Specifications:

• Material: ABS, PMMA coated, gloss finish, UV resistant
• Dimensions: Ø ca. 84 cm, 33 cm hoch
• Weight approx. 10.5 Kg
• Illuminant: 1x max. 60W E27 Standard light bulb
• Cable: length ca. 5 m, transparent silver with dimmer switch
• Safety Fuse: T 1.6 AH 250V (dimmer switch)
• Protection class: IP20
• Fire Protection class: B2

The Lounge Table is available from the Pid.se website for 8,821 SEK (about $1,150 USD).

First of all, sorry about the lack of updates lately. I’ve been involved in a project that has taken up all of my time. But now GeekAlerts is back on track and you can expect lots of new entries about fun, cool, weird and interesting gadgets.

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Some of you might have stumbled upon these cartoon speech bubble speakers last year when they were “only” one all all those cool concepts that pops up every week. But guess what? These awesome babies have now become reality.

Speak-er are high-qualtiy multimedia speakers that plug directly into your computer or MP3 player.

Construction: Polished white ABS housing with matte black steel grille.
Dimensions: H 4 x W 6 x L 2 inches per speaker.

The Speak-er speakers will be available this year. A pair will set you back $120. You can reserve your set now by sending an email to speaker@thinkofthe.com.

Designer Ju-Wei Chen has come up with the Inbi-Out concept – a GPS coin to make all your decisions. Kind of like a futuristic version of these two existing decision makers.

The Inbi-Out coin tosses a 50/50 chance of where you should eat, drink, hang out, etc.., and displays the final decision on a tiny embedded screen complete with GPS coordinates and directions.

More photos and information about the Inbi-Out GPS Coin at Yanko Design.

Via a bunch of great blogs that you should check out:

• Gizmodo
• Slippery Brick
• TechEBlog
• TechFresh
• Ubergizmo

The innovative guys over at the French company Atypyk has come with this cool idea.

The Wi-Fi Fan won’t work as an indicator for wireless internet connections, like the Wi-Fi Finding Laptop Bags or the Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt, but it sure looks great and it will help you to keep cool during the hot summer days.

Head over to atypyk.com for more info about the Wi-Fi fan (no word on pricing).

(Gizmodo via Uberreview)

My Uzi Weighs a Ton – that’s the Public Enemy inspired name of this massive skateboard that would make the Log Lady want to hit the ramps (via Likecool).

Thomas Thomassen created this beautiful retro media center PC for his final project in BA (Hons) modelmaking for design and media at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth.

The making of the model involved a range of various processes. One of the ones I used the most was vacuumforming. It was by this process that most of the parts where created.

On the Inside

• VIA Epia 13000 miniITX
• SilenX CPU fan
• 1GB RAM
• 100GB 2.5″ Harddrive
• Soundgraph iMON Remote Control

Visit Thomas’s website for more photos and info about the Retro Media Center PC.

(Make via Boing Boing and Unplggd)

Funkeyboards is a unique set of designed stickers, shaped to fit your PC or laptop keyboard with fun and colorful graphics. There’s even a “Glow in the Dark” version.

Additional stickers are attached to each set of stickers to suit different Keyboard types. Funkeyboards stickers fits Dell, HP, Gateway, Compac, Apple, and other major brands.

One set of Funkeyboards Designer Keyboard Stickers will cost you $9.99.

(Via Chip Chick)

What could possibly be better than a nice, big, tasty chunk from the Swiss Army Knife Chocolate? Well, if you’re a computer geek, maybe a piece of this chocolate keyboard.

The idea is created by Michael Sholk, a designer based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Check out the chocolate keyboard and other fun and cool concepts at his personal website.

(Via Gizmodiva)

Santiago Cantera, a designer from Cordoba, Argentina, has come up with the idea for this cool and geeky looking keyboard inspired digital alarm clock.

The timepiece – which is just a concept at the moment – is called Escape Clock and features a black finish and big red digits. When you want to go back to sleep for a while, simply give it a good hit with your fist.

Head over to Santiago Cantera’s personal blog for larger photos of the Escape Clock.

(Coroflot via Designlaunches and Engadget)

Football fan or not, it really doesn’t matter – this 51cm (20 inches) tall football stadium floodlights desktop replica will look great in just about any home. It features a shiny chrome finish and the six spotlights can be tilted up and down.

Product Features:

• Home or desk lighting inspired by the beautiful game
• Replica football stadium lighting
• Chrome-styled finish
• Swivel head
• Requires 6 x E14 25W Bulbs (not included)
• Weight: 1.9Kg

The Floodlamp Desk Lamp is available from drinkstuff.com for £69.99 (about $108).

(Nerd Approved via Gearfuse)

The Polish design team Poor has come up with a fun and cool concept for a computer accessory – a wooden clothespin that features a built-in USB flash drive.

The USB pendrive memory in the form of typical wooden clamp. It can be easily fastened to clothes, thus forming an amusing decoration both for women and men.

This item combines both tradition and modernity and such combination was an important consideration during design phase.

Head over to the poor.pl website for more photos of the Clothespin USB Drive.

(Via Yanko Design)

Steampunk and retro futurist fabricator Datamancer has come up with yet another impressive creation. This time it’s a keyboard based on the ergonomic IBM Model M-15.

This keyboard was commissioned by a female client and has some elegant, feminine design features such as violet LEDs, an acanthus-leaf pattern etched into the brass, and a soft burgundy wrist pad that is removable for cleaning.

It also has a built-in “buttonless” touchpad mouse in the center (tap anywhere to left-click and drag, tap in the top-right corner to right-click).

This keyboard is interesting because the typing plane is actuallytipped forward rather than back. It looks odd at first, but actually makes for a very comfortable typing position.

Head over to Datamancer.net for more photos of the Ergonomic Steampunk Keyboard.

(Make via UberReview via SlipperyBrick via Boing Boing Gadgets)

One thing you won’t have to use with the Kindle e-book reader is a physical bookmark – which feels a bit sad when you come across something as beautiful as this.

Each one of these bookmarks are hand-made by the designer, so no one looks exactly the same. The product is sold as a set of three: red, white and gray.

The Liquid Bookmark is available from Designboom for $29.

(Gizmodiva via OhGizmo)

Martyr is the name of this creative nightlight designed by the Play Coalition team.

The small lamp is designed like to look like someone who’s trying unplug himself from the socket and the product is described as ” the energy saving fundamentalist”.

Head over to The Play Coalition to see more photos of the Martyr Nightlight.

Via a bunch of blogs well worth visiting:

• Boing Boing Gadgets
• Geeky Gadgets
• Coated
• CraziestGadgets
• CrunchGear
• Designboom
• Fascination.se
• Hardware Sphere
• Likecool
• Tech Digest
• Why Me?