With the next Olympics event four years away, you can expect gadget makers to keep capitalizing on the excitement over this year’s happenings. This Water Cube-inspired cell phone makes a good example.

The cell phone’s design mimicks the Water Cube’s unique “soap bubbles” that were used to light up the aquatics center. Featuring a 2.4-inch LCD screen, MP3- and video-playing capabilities and a “dual high-definition camera,” this looks like a promising cell phone, but I’d exercise extreme caution buying any gadget straight from China — since, oh, you know, the country is notorious for using technology to spy on its citizens.

Nonetheless, it’s an aesthetically interesting phone devoted to the Olympics — much more interesting than Samsung’s boring-as-reading-Moby-Dick Blackjack II, which was the “official” Olympics phone.

Water Cube-inspired cell phone from Beijing Olympics: [via] – [source]

Since the Olympics have began there have been several Birds Nest inspired gadgetry. Frankly, all of them look a bit cheesy. This new one is a USB speaker to keep your music going no matter where you’re at. I’m sure the actual full-size Olympic version of this is much more interesting and attractive, but the gadgets just haven’t been. Notice how I said I’m sure, which just goes to show how much I pay attention to the Olympics. I’m not sure I’d even know they were going on if several different gadget sites didn’t occasionally post that one of the girls in the Olympics had done something drool-worthy.

So those that are really into the Olympics might get into this gadget a bit more than those like me that keep away from sports like they’re the black plague. The USB speaker doesn’t have a lot in the way of speccs, but it does have the usual. It works with all types of MP3 players, iPhones and iPods. It is a cheap speaker so it’s not going to have stellar sound quality, but it works. It’s being sold for $12 and comes in either black or silver.

USB speaker inspired by Olympic Stadium: [via]