Creative Sound Blaster SB1250 wireless touch controller hits the FCC

There's not a lot to go on with this one, unfortunately, but it looks like Creative could be about to add a "wireless touch controller" to its array of Sound Blaster products. As revealed by our friends at the FCC, the Sound Blaster SB1250 (codenamed "Lories") apparently packs a touchscreen of unspecified size, along with a couple of basic media playback keys, a headphone jack and, judging from the test reports, 2.4GHz wireless connectivity. What's not at all clear, however, is what the controller will actually control, although Creative's Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes seems like one possibility -- or, potentially, a follow-up of some sort to that device.

[pika2000 Posted Apr 16th 2010 3:52PM]

Errr, what's the point?

[tomaskn Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:02PM]

ithink its a media player remote, media box at the tv/receiver controlled with this controller, i like it.

[Slvrgun Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:09PM]

Creative ran out of ideas?

[ChristianTexan Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:12PM]

Needs more bezel.

[espentan Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:53PM]

I loled.

[The Dead Marxist Trio Posted Apr 17th 2010 12:09PM]

@ChristianTexan

all I heard was "hey, we found some sketches of game gear, blah blah"

[AdamSpruijt Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:16PM]

Anyone remember the Zii?

Oh the good old days.

[AdamSpruijt Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:21PM]

Anyone remember the Zii?

Oh the good old days!

[albinomexi Posted Apr 16th 2010 4:34PM]

Soundblaster? Man...good days...my computer has an integrated sound card with optical...I'm good

[EGOvoruhk Posted Apr 16th 2010 6:18PM]

@albinomexi

Good with what? Because optical no longer cuts it. It doesn't have the bandwidth for HD audio

[Very Powerfull Codfish Posted Apr 16th 2010 8:02PM]

At least this proves they are doing SOMETHING. The newest Zens are good for their pricing, but not exactly anything alse than pumping out a new player line to settle the sheep for the time being..

[BetterPaperUser Posted Apr 17th 2010 5:02AM]

It would be nice if Creative spent more time working on the design and interface of their mp3s instead of messing around with stuff like this.

[mkhpalm Posted Apr 17th 2010 7:04AM]

Creative is still in business? I thought they wanted out given that driver stunt to piss off the entire customer base a few years ago.