Revisiting tech tools of yesteryear in Lego (pictures)

Chris McVeigh uses Lego's modeling app to plan plastic tributes to classic consumer goods from speakers to cameras to lightbulbs.

Canadian graphic designer Chris McVeigh loves playing with bricks. When he gets an idea to recreate a vintage appliance in Lego, he uses software to plan the build before getting his hands dirty, so to speak, with the plastic itself.

This classic silver toaster was made for the 2011 Gizmodo article "One Man's Nearly Impossible Quest to Make a Toaster From Scratch."

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by CBS Interactive via CNET