If you’re looking for a hammer that you can drop off the roof, bash through rough demo tasks, yank out nails, and generally abuse without fear of damage, look no further. Forged from a single ...

Humans have been banging nails into wood for more than 5,500 years. But what is the state of the art? Here's five of our favorite high-tech hammers.

But now, here comes Craftsman with something called the NEXTEC Hammerhead Auto-Hammer, a battery-powered tool that drives nails by pounding a little piston up to 3600 times per minute.

The Latthammer works by holding the nail in place in the groove with a powerful magnet. You just hit the hammer once to fix the nail into a piece of wood, then hit the nail again to drive it in ...