What Burning Hot Laptops Can Do to Your Legs

[fkr]

i understand how stupid this seems but i live in phoenix and a 116 degree weather is not that uncommon. hell we reached that temperature last week. And when i lived in ny i used to use the heat output from my laptop to keep my legs warm. sometimes it would burn some but when you keep your house at 65 degrees it feels good. when i think about how long i would let my body cook in front of the wood stove to keep warm growing up i am surprised this did not happen to me. I used to sleep on top of the heater vents and i know they must be at least that hot. it all seems kinda weird to me

 

[spigias]

He was probably playing Burnout Legends

 

[rantoc]

"Toasted Skin Syndrome."

 

[f-14]

another case of "he's holding it wrong" wonder if that's what jobs would say to this kid too. it probably wasn't an ipad/imac/iphone as the 10 year old technology used in them has still yet to reach geforce mx440 & heat temps and they are engineered to run for 10 hours battery life instead of play super mario brothers.

what ever he was doing he sure wore his knees down, look at that floor burn! must have been an imac, only way his knees would look like that is all the subservient praying apple fan boi's offer up to his JOBSness.

 

[Guest]

mmmm... i smell bacon... Wait! it me!

 

[rhino13]

I knew we shouldn't put Fermi in laptops!

 

[steelbox]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]I knew we shouldn't put Fermi in laptops![/citation]
Should change the name to Frymi for the laptop edition.

 

[RipperjackAU]

I knew that playing World of Warcraft on your laptop is addictive, but at the expense of ones legs... wow, addicts will stop at nothing for their next purple epic fix!

 

[Pyroflea]

"Damn this is hot... my legs really hurt. Oh well, I'm sure it's fine."

Stupid people and their.. stupidness.

 

[dgingeri]

I believe this falls under the category of "Duh."

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]A lot of you calling this 12 year old child an idiot are vastly overestimating how hot 125 degrees feels. That really isn't very hot. Not nearly hot enough for me to worry about being burned. This was the point of the article. It's not hot enough to cause physical pain or burn your skin but if you are in constant contact with it for several hours a day over the course of several months it CAN damage your skin, slowly.[/citation]

Seeing the rarity of this "incident" it appears to be a people problem. Perhaps he should quit playing WoW (gaming makes laptops hot) and put some damn lotion on his knees.

 

[Guest]

i can bet he has a laptop with fermi gpu.. je je je...

 

[TemjinGold]

Bet he was watching porn...

 

[Graham_71]

[citation][nom]scrumworks[/nom]I'm sure his laptop had mobile Fermi.[/citation]
lol yeah or any nvidia GPU

 

[bobusboy]

my 3 year old laptop gets up to 100*C according to a coretemp program. And yea its hot on my lap so i move it when it gets uncomfortable. But come on.

Last thing we need is more fear mongering and regulation over laptop safety.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I've been burned many times in many places, I don't think I need to worry about getting burned on my legs again.

 

[luc2k]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump right out.If you put a frog in water and slowly turn up the heat, it'll boil to death.[/citation]
or not http/www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

 

[kingssman]

I've seen these scars caused by MacBook Pros overheating.

 

[Goro]

Ok folks little Anatomy 101. Human body is mostly made of what? You guessed it water! While at first it might not look or feel like a burn, long exposure to higher temperature will cause cells to deteriorate eventually because they did not have enough time to regenerate from damage.

 

[Darkv1]

One would think that by the time someone was feeling pain they would have figured out that the laptop should be...you know...moved off their legs. No Sympathy.