At one point or another, all of us have found ourselves in an awkward social encounter that we wish we could get out of without being rude or offending the person we are engaging with — and this ...

Tear Gun is a strange-looking pistol that collects tears in a silicon pocket under the eye, freezes them in a brass bottle and shoots them like bullets. The design is Chen’s final Master’s project at ...

Yi Fei Chen, a Taiwanese artist, invented a unique tear gun. The gun freezes tears into ice bullets. Chen built the gun after an argument with her professor. The tear gun uses carbon dioxide to freeze ...

In a remarkable blend of art and emotion, a Taiwanese artist has created a tear gun that transforms her tears into icy projectiles, aimed at those who upset her. The inventive idea emerged from a ...

Taiwanese artist Yi-Fei Chen has brought a whole new meaning to the concept of turning your pain into art. In 2016, the designer created a brass gun that used her tears as bullets. The faux weapon was ...

An artist in Taiwan--who designed a gun that collects her tears, freezes them, and then shoots the frozen tears as bullets at whoever upset her--has said that she was inspired by an argument with her ...

Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen has created a chair that explodes if sat on for too long, giving her an excuse to get up and escape an awkward situation. The designer, who graduated from Design Academy ...

One-minute movie: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen has designed a gun that collects tears, freezes them and then fires them as bullets, in response to a altercation with a tutor. Sent on ...

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell people when they’re crossing the line. But here’s an idea: Just freeze your own tears into ice bullets and shoot them at the person bothering you. It’s an eccentric way to ...

Ask any parent, any spouse, or any histrionic teenager, and they’ll tell you: Tears can be used as weapons. Until now, though, those weapons were figurative, wounding the heart of onlookers without ...

How many of us have made our graduation useful in real life? Yi Fei Chen made a working model of her final graduation project and it took her three months to craft this innovative creation that ...