Do you keep your laptop on your lap?

[lozina]

You may be toasting your legs! :twisted:

http://news.discovery.com/human/warm-laptop-beware-toasted-leg-syndrome.html

Laptop computers, by nature, can go anywhere. And when users log on, they often rest the laptop in their lap.
This may even be how you are reading this article right now. If so, you may want to consider moving the laptop off your skin.
The November issue of Pediatrics explores a case study involving a 12-year-old boy whose laptop is thought to have caused erythema ab igne, a skin affliction known as "toasted leg syndrome."


Erythema ab igne is a skin disorder in which affected skin turns brown. It is typically caused by prolonged exposure to heat or an infrared source such as a heating pad or hot water bottle.


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In rare cases, chronic erythema ab igne can lead to squamous cell carcinoma, a form of cancer.


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[RavenSEAL]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tec-_-34999850

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[bignateyk]

My sister has some condition where she is prone to that cancer you have bolded. She hasn't gotten it, but her dermatologist told her not to put hot things in contact with her skin.

 

[olds]

No. I keep it in your mom's lap.

 

[muskie32]

There should be a poll to go along with it

But... Yes i do

 

[irishScott]

Only if I have no other option. Hunched over with 6.x lbs on my legs is no way to crunch out a paper.