Tweezer

The restaurant aspires to bridge the gap between the visually striking but sometimes anemic world of “tweezer food,” and the down-home-y, more traditionally satisfying types of food that Becker prefers — and suspects most other people do, too.

This tweezer duo is made of sturdy stainless steel, ensuring their resistance against corrosion and general wear and tear.

Using virtual reality (VR), researchers tested whether humans could feel like the tweezer claw was a part of their own body.

Francesco Bonacci, then a doctoral student in France, visited UD to conduct laser tweezer experiments and study the stiffness of bonds in the silica and latex materials under investigation.

If you’re a fan of BBC’s The Apprentice, cast your mind back to the 2011 finale when inventor Tom Pellereau won the contest with a tweezer design.

Tweezers used to be part of this group, but tweezer has come into common usage only since the second half of the 20th century.