"Your muscles feel like a taut rubber band and then it feels like a vise, like someone is pressing inward," Jaesson said. Jaesson, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is among tens of millions of people ...

They’re commonly known as a brand name: Vise-Grips, but there are plenty of competitors with their own names—and advantages. So what’s the best pair of locking pliers? Well, there is no ...

Kunze envisaged a "fractal" vise using a number of freely rotating semi-circular grips, smaller ones nested within the larger ones, such that as the vise is tightened on an object, the grips are ...