Logitech’s clip-on tablet speaker latches onto your slate for dear life, doubles as a stand

We will swear we feel hints of fall creeping in already, but Logitech just announced a product we’d have loved to work out originally of beach season: a speaker bar that clips onto the back of any tablet, effectively turning it into the boombox it wasn’t built to be. We all know, we all know, that barrel of a speaker looks a tad silly next to the likes of the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, but we’re digging the way it doubles as a stand, propping up the slate if, perchance, you’re also down for watching a film. In our brief hands-on, the speaker felt lighter than it looks in those photos down there, and delivered decently loud sound, too. Like we said, we will see this making for a festive old time on the beach or a picnic, though after we asked a Logitech rep about durability he said we’d are looking to shield the speaker from sand. Because it is a wired product (it charges via USB and lasts as much as eight hours on a charge), it commands not up to the wireless speaker for iPad that Logitech’s already shilling. Specifically, we’re told it’ll cost $49.99, though as of this writing it hasn’t popped up within the company’s online store, which suggests those of you unashamed of your Justin Bieber collection should just sit tight.