‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’ Warning For Laptop Users

Associated Press ^ | 10/4/10 | CBS2/AP

[Lmo56]

Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit.

Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, according to medical reports.

[Lmo56]

I've always thought that a laptop could be used as a grilled cheese cooker in a pinch - or maybe a George Foreman Grill ...

[dfwgator]

“It’s always something.”

[JoeProBono]

Twelve-year-old boy's left thigh showing signs of toasted skin syndrome

[Lmo56]

Ahhhh good ole DFW - was stationed at Carswell AFB ....

[sinanju]

So it was my laptop that ended my swimsuit modeling career?!?

Whom do I sue?

[Mr_Moonlight]

Anyone who sits with a laptop on their, uhhh, lap all the time would know that the darn things tend to get rather HOT after a while .. and anyone using a laptop which is getting HOT should have the good sense to .. ummm, well, take the damn thing OFF their lap !!!

Why is it that common sense seems so uncommon nowadays?

[libertarian27]

Yeah, but there isn’t a warning label on the laptops with a lap and a red circle slash over it - how are we suppose to know laptops get hot?/huge sarc.

[OldNavyVet]

There may be fertility consequences from close proximity electromagnetic radiation. Not to worry, however, my radar-tuning days taught me that fertility problems go away in time.

[dfwgator]

Especially if they spend the whole time watching videos, if I’m just on FR, the laptop stays cool, but start watching videos, and you can fry an egg on it.

[mylife]

So what's up with these?

[MetaThought]

If your laptop gets really hot, you might want to open it up and clean out the fan. I just did that, and boy does my laptop run cooler.

[UCANSEE2]

Especially if they spend the whole time watching videos,

And the picture is of a 12 year old BOY.

Not too hard to put 2 and 2 together.

[Lmo56]

Worked for NEC [the Nips] in the 80’s in the fiber optics division - other side of the shop worked microwaves.

Japanese boss of microwaves [20+ years experience] said microwave guys suffer the ultimate fate children-wise [all girls] ...

[Mr_Moonlight]

how are we suppose to know laptops get hot?

Those EVIL(!) corporate laptop makers never told us any of this :( Even if they did, we would ignore the warning anyway, and sue nonetheless ... or else commission a government 'study' about 'mottled knees' ...

Now then .. where is my overly hot McDonalds coffee cup ???

/sarc off

[UCANSEE2]

Is that a MacIntosh? Where's the display screen?

[tophat9000]

Puts a whole new spin on computer nerds having a weenie roast

[Viking2002]

A twelve-year-old boy showing signs of not owning a Red Ryder BB gun, or knowing how to build a tree fort or fish for bluegill. The pussification of our next generation is just about complete. We could win every election for the next twenty years, but this who we bestow the spoils of victory upon - the Nintendo and Hot Pockets generation. We are doomed.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[ottbmare]

Actually, my new laptop does have a warning label to tell you not to roast yourself!

[Carley]

So now we have to be told that the laptop gets hot?????????????

[mylife]

LoL!