26 June 2020

Inventions in Everything: Dinosaur Jaw Pliers

Have you ever been flummoxed by a screw that defies all your efforts to remove it after you've stripped its head?

While there are specialized tools or creative methods you can use to extract a screw with a stripped head, the specialized tools can only work if you happen to have them, and the creative methods you might otherwise use can be pretty frustrating unless you happen to be lucky with your specific stripped screw circumstances. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just pull a regular hand tool out of your toolbox to do the job?

In the case of stripped screws with a raised heads, there might now be a reliable option to do just that. From Japan, Engineer Inc.'s patented Neji-saurus PZ-59 pliers have dinosaur-inspired jaws that give it unique capabilities, as shown in the company's promotional video for the product, which is itself awesomely awesome.

Engineer's dinosaur jaw-inspired family of pliers is marketed in the U.S. by Vampire Professional Tools under the brand name VamPLIERS. According to Core77, Engineer Inc. has sold over 4 million of its Neji-saurus pliers worldwide since inventing them in 2002.

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