Bill Morgan’s life has been full of luck – good and bad. He should have died in June 1998 and for 14 minutes he did. But somehow doctors managed to revive him after he had a heart attack and spent 15 days in a coma. Mr. Morgan, then 37 and living in a caravan park in Melbourne's outer suburbs, was dubbed a 'medical miracle'.
Bill Morgan decided to try his luck at the lottery. He purchased a scratch-off ticket and instantly won a car – worth about A$30k at the time. Bill was expectedly overjoyed.
This lucky turn of events soon caught the interest of a Melbourne news station. They decided to cover Bill’s story, and this is where things get really interesting. While filming a reenactment of his win, Bill purchased another scratch-off ticket that would prove to be his biggest surprise yet: He had just won A$250k, right on live television.
The extraordinary win and the subsequent call to his fiancee to tell her she could buy a house was shown on Nine's evening news in Melbourne, and then around the world via CNN and the BBC. When Daily Mail Australia contacted Mr. Morgan, now 59, to tell him he was a star all over again, he said he still buys scratchies - but hasn't had that same kind of luck with lotto or his health

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Growing up in a strict social hierarchy can lead to real frustration. The bottling of thoughts, biting one’s tongue regularly, and having to uphold unquestionable respect for one’s elders is what inspired young designer Yi-Fei Chen to create the Tear Gun.

It is a physical metaphor that represents Chen’s stifled frustration after an altercation with one of her tutors left her in tears. After years of suppressing emotions to avoid rudeness, Chen’s design is the literal expression of her internal struggle to speak her mind.

The Tear Gun works by catching tears under the wearer’s eye with a silicon pocket. They are then funneled into a steampunk-like brass system. A small bottle filled with dry ice fixed to the back of the pistol freezes the teardrops into solid bullets, ready to be fired into the face of authority.

"The social restrictions I faced growing up became a burden of pressure and these tears represent the explosion of frustration and anger. I tried to suppress myself for so long - not talking back, not being rude, not crying, not breaking down - but the emotions ultimately won,” Chen said.

On the most challenging aspect of the design process, Chen said, “To realize the concept and to make the design work. When I made the first drawings, the size of the design was much bigger and it became a challenge to turn it into a handy, compact gun.

Thanks to the guidance of my mentors and friends, I found the right direction to take the design in. Without their help, I would have built a more chunky and unwieldy weapon.”

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