U.S. Military using Wiimote-controlled Packbot to disable bombs

Filed under: Nintendo Wii We like the way the U.S. military thinks. One of the Wii’s biggest flaws is the painful stretches of downtime between its bigger releases, causing dust to settle on Nintendo’s minuscule console and cobwebs to form on our Wiimotes. What better way to get more mileage out of our neglected gyroscopic peripherals than to use them to blow up actual bombs and landmines? This must have been the thought process of those techno-wizards at iRobot, who have modified their Packb
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