Not material with Nintendo’s present portable video game offerings, fifteen year old hardware hacker [Xteaphn] (pronounced “Steven”) has come up with a series of hardware adjustments to make a battery-operated Wii console. The hacked console features a folding laptop-like screen, which obviously includes the IR emitters required to make the Wiimote operate properly, in addition to a set of small stereo speakers. To show exactly how small the customized console is, [Xteaphn] offers size comparisons with thirteen- as well as fifteen-inch laptops in addition to with a traditional Nintendo game Boy. The only prospective hindrance to its long-lasting durability, as finest as we can tell from the video, is that the battery pack as well as its associated linking wires hang crudely off the back of the console like a kind of electric colostomy bag.

Check out [Xteaphn]’s YouTube video after the break.

[via Engadget]