Aside from being a gadget for entertainment, the Nintendo Wii Remote now has another use, and a very beneficial one I must say. The U.S. military has come up with the idea of using the Wii Remote for defusing bombs. The military is working on its own version of a bomb-sniffing robot which they call as the Packbot. Though this has been operated previously using a joypad, the military is looking for ways to make operation easier for the soldier manipulating it. Using the joypad does not allow the operator to concentrate fully in driving the robot, but the Wii Remote can change all that.

If you have a Wii Remote, you know about its motion-detecting abilities. This is what the military is banking on because this will take the operator’s attention away from the actual manipulation of the Packbot but rather to focus further on the information collected. When the Packbot finds a bomb or any explosive in the field it will send out a vibration feedback to the operator alerting him.

Personally, I think using the Wii Remote for this purpose is a brilliant idea, don’t you think so?