Author Topic: <snif><snif> You smell something burning? (Read 223 times)

Mickey1992 · « **on:** November 22, 2002, 01:09:43 PM »

Scientist Burns noodle with Hot Laptop
Fri Nov 22, 9:53 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

LONDON (Reuters) - Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist didn't realize to what extent until he burned his noodle.

The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.

He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it wasn't until he was examined by a doctor that he realized how much damage had been done.

"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday.

Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."

Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.

"This...story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop in a literal sense," he added.

vorticon · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2002, 01:13:33 PM »

hmmm he probably should have had a heat sink installed rather than just having a completly uncooled laptop

gofaster · « **Reply #2 on:** November 22, 2002, 01:42:53 PM »

NOTICE TO AIRMEN
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Public Safety Message For All Aces High Pilots

It has been brought to our attention that there is a very strong possiblity of airmen suffering burns after prolonged operation of laptops in an unsafe position - placement of the laptop in the airmen's lap. All airmen are hereby instructed to use laptops positioned on desks and tabletops and to avoid placing the laptop directly on their laps. Thank you.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** November 22, 2002, 01:52:30 PM »

I've abused myself:

Hot coffee with tight jeans (ala 1979 style) do NOT mix. 2nd degree burns, GF at the time couldn't undress in front of me for two weeks because of the possibility of rupturing blisters....I think I'll stop here, its a painful memory.

miko2d · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2002, 01:58:03 PM »

Laptop models of portable computers can be easily confused with noodletop ones. Consumer beware!

miko

midnight Target · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2002, 02:02:19 PM »

Was on a cross country road trip with my ex when I spilled a cup of coffee into my lap. The coffee was only luke warm at the time, but I said some appropriate cuss words which made her think I was burned. She swiftly grabbed the large bottle of ICE COLD water we had and dumped it into my lap.

Lucky we didn't die, I was doing 70 at the time.

easymo · « **Reply #6 on:** November 22, 2002, 02:08:33 PM »

"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches),"

And they call me insensitive.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2002, 02:13:26 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Was on a cross country road trip with my ex when I spilled a cup of coffee into my lap. The coffee was only luke warm at the time, but I said some appropriate cuss words which made her think I was burned. She swiftly grabbed the large bottle of ICE COLD water we had and dumped it into my lap.

Lucky we didn't die, I was doing 70 at the time.

OMG< Laughing hard on that one!