Tom's Hardware > Forum > Old Man/Woman's Club > Other > Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop

Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop

Forum Old Man/Woman's Club : Other - Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
lagger   11-22-2002 at 05:57:39 PM

Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop




Nov 22, 9:53 am ET

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 penis.
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.


<A HREF="http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?lagger" target="_new"> All Nude Female Jello® Wrestling RuleZ!</A>

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
jihiggs   11-22-2002 at 06:08:06 PM
- 0 +

man, that pretty bad, my 233 laptop gets pretty hot, it sucks a lot in the summer, its a good thing in winter though :)

how do you shoot the devil in the back? what happens if you miss? -verbal

Reply to jihiggs
Kanaz   11-23-2002 at 08:00:43 PM
- 0 +

I didn't realize laptops could get that hot. Plus, how could he not have noticed?

"You need to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their backs on you, you get the chance to put the knife in." -Pink Floyd, ‘Dogs’

Reply to Kanaz
ejsmith2   11-23-2002 at 08:13:55 PM
- 0 +

The lithium batteries are most efficient at something like 140 degrees farenheit.

Which ends up being pretty [-peep-] hot. That's why I keep my laptop on an aluminium pizza pan. It really helps cool the thing down.

Thin trousers don't quite give you enough protection. I remember long sessions of Aoe2 on my laptop, and it would get too hot to have on my lap so I always had to have a clipboard or book to set it on.

I'm not sure about him not noticing. When you're really, really cold the heat feels good. But when you're getting burned, I should think you'd do something about it.


"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser

Reply to ejsmith2
Flamethrower205   11-23-2002 at 08:17:18 PM
- 0 +

Odd though, I've sat many an hour w/ nothing but underwear and a laptop on my lap, and never gotten burned or even felt discomfort. This was w/ several different laptops. Anyway, our scientist deserves a darwin award:)

Kentucky: 15 million people, 5 last names....

Reply to Flamethrower205
lagger   11-23-2002 at 08:20:50 PM
- 0 +

Quote :

Anyway, our scientist deserves a darwin award


yeah but they only go to those who died in the act of stupidity thereby removing their genes from the pool and aiding positive evolution :evil:

<A HREF="http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?lagger" target="_new"> All Nude Female Jello® Wrestling RuleZ!</A>

Reply to lagger
Flamethrower205   11-23-2002 at 08:22:34 PM
- 0 +

well he almost removed his genes :wink:

Kentucky: 15 million people, 5 last names....

Reply to Flamethrower205
lagger   11-23-2002 at 09:56:32 PM
- 0 +

good point :smile:

<A HREF="http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?lagger" target="_new"> All Nude Female Jello® Wrestling RuleZ!</A>

Reply to lagger
ejsmith2   11-24-2002 at 12:57:07 AM
- 0 +

There a lesser Darwin award for those who lived.

A Samantha Award or something. I dunno if it's the name of his wife, or what.

"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser

Reply to ejsmith2
svol   11-24-2002 at 03:27:10 PM
- 0 +

LOL... poor man.

My CPU runs so hot the arctic silver undergoes nuclear fusion :eek: .

Reply to svol
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Old Man/Woman's Club > Other > Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop
Go to:

There are 1079 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.194 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
Related Content
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
  • 01:00 Ckaz won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 james59 won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 snarl won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 patlabor44 won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 Kiren won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 WookinPaNub won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 kwadams won the Uniformed badge
  • 21:57 brockh won the Sophmore badge
  • 01:00 xpax won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 Mizoguchi won the Freshman badge