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They do not cite any skin cancer cases linked to laptop use, but suggest, to be safe, placing a carrying case or other heat shield under the laptop if you have to hold it in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

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.

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.