You know how I have said that what a blind woman really needs is a personal security bubble

capable of delivering a small electric shock to people who invade her personal space and grab/drag her about?
The Yellow Jacket iPhone Stun Gun seems to be it
http://www.indiegogo.com/yellowjacket
(note that it also acts as an additional power source). Okay, so it's not really a bubble, but I think it would convey the appropriate message, although I still think there should be a recorded message which warns "Step away from the blind woman."
iphone

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The new Lois McMaster Bujold book is available as an advance review copy in etext from the Baen Books Website. Alexx loaded it on his iPad and read it to me a few weeks back. It is--as I had always predicted Ivan's story would be--a romantic comedy which then turns into a heist novel, so it makes a great beach book (and there is even a beach in it).
Thank you to LJ user thnidu for prompting my memory.