In some exciting news from the homebrew scene, a developer named pegasus2000 is moving forward with a project known as Nanodesktop Blind Assistant. This cutting-edge piece of software will assist the vision-impaired with a number of functions.

Although there’s no new official release, pegasus2000 has offered up some proof of concept videos which detail some of the functionality of the software. Blind Assistant will allegedly handle voice recognition in the new core release of CFW0005. Later versions may include a vocal e-mail client, a color scanner, and a face recognition function.

Check out the two proof of concept videos to see a bit of the Blind Assistant CFW0005 in action. This is a truly exciting project, and should break new ground with regard to how versatile and useful the PSP can be as a hardware platform. More news on this very progressive piece of software as it drops, so stay tuned.