PSP Games - Blind Wizard CFW 006, a utility for the blind

Blind Assistant is an excellent homebrew, we could compare to a Project Natal, but for PSP. This application requires a Go! Cam, for some options, a wireless connection. This tool is designed to scan, analyze, and give you the information via the microphones of the PSP, then by the auditory pathways. Information may be various, the application can recognize a person, analyze the part where you are, you tell time or read a text for you.

For those who have not yet understood, it is probably one of the most homebrews, if not the, extraordinary. Developed by Filippo Battaglia, a student at the University of Messina (Sicily), Blind CFW006 Wizard uses several libraries, and uses the entire gam-RAM of the PSP Slim, which is 64Mb (the application can run on a PSP fat, but some features will be disabled).

Here is the list of application features:

Ability to listen to the hour and date, it is preferable that such information is properly configured in your settings.
The PSP can recognize people by pointing the camera, tell you their names and positions.
The PSP can determine which room you are.
The PSP can detect and recognize characters forming a text, and you read it.
The application can scan the color pointed to by the GO! CAM
The homebrew is develop a system that allows you to view your emails easily, download attachments to these emails and reply to your messages. If you are connected in WiFi, a tone will sound if you receive an email.
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A la base, cet homebrew est développé pour aider les personnes ayant des troubles de la vue. Même si ils auront besoin d'une aide pour configurer comme il faut l'application, l'idée est bonne et ne peut qu'être applaudie. De plus, l'auteur met les sources en ligne, afin que d'autres développeurs puissent intégrer quelque fonction de cet extraordinaire homebrew dans leurs jeux, applications,...