In the past, "toasted skin syndrome'' has occurred in workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and, before central heating, in people who ...

They do not cite any skin cancer cases linked to laptop use, but suggest, to be safe, placing a carrying case or other heat shield under the laptop if you have to hold it in your lap.

Balancing your laptop on your knees could cause permanent discolouration of the skin and, in rare cases, cancer, doctors have warned. The heat generated by the computers can cause a nettle sting ...

That case, from 2007, was one of 10 laptop-related cases reported in medical journals in the past six years. The condition is generally harmless but can cause permanent skin darkening.

Overheating laptops can pose danger to laps. Oct. 5, 2010 — -- One day 24-year-old Kristin Manigault noticed the skin on her legs had become irritated. "It started looking really funny. Then ...

If you put a thick, adhesive decorative skin on your high-end gaming laptop does it make it hotter? There is only one way to find out. Here are my results.

This type of laptop burn is not even a first-degree burn.” Indeed, this “burn” is actually a reddening of the skin caused by the dilating of capillaries.

Nation & World Heat from laptop may be toasting skin on your legs Originally published October 3, 2010 at 8:19 pm Updated October 4, 2010 at 12:12 pm ...

News Technology & Science Laptop on your lap can give you sunburn-like skin damage People who work with a laptop on their knees are at risk of causing sunburn-like damage to their skin.

Photo by king nikochan. If you routinely keep your laptop on your lap even though it feels like you could probably fry an egg on your GPU, you could be putting yourself at risk for skin damage and ...