Beware!
Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop
Be careful out there, guys.
This could cause serious damage to your hard drive.
It’ll turn it into a floppy drive, in fact.
::Vanyel ducks away from the rotton tomatos::
And we do NOT want that!
Look, if IBM would just clearly label their ThinkPads as having a disk drive, then there wouldn’t be this problem, would there?
I, as an owner, and current user of a laptop, want to thank you for the warning. I’m terrified that…
HOLY CRAP THAT’S HOT!!!
Owie, Owie Owie.
Yeah I know… I’m a pretty big boy…
::Xavier, who doesn’t notice the smoke eminating from his flies::
lno Labelling? Shit. I’d love to see “Do not place close to source of erection. May cause permanent damage.”
I’m sure I could even design a little “safety icon” for it.
Ooyeah.
You know, if I were a journalist, that’s the kind of headline I’d live for.
Thanks for the hot tip.
And glad it didn’t burn your scrotum off.
Too bad for Mr. Ostenson the incident didn’t occur stateside. He could sue the shit out of the manufacturer, the companies that supply the parts, the Karolinska Institute for not supplying him with a desktop, etc., etc. and probably walk away with more money that those fat kids from the Bronx will.
It almost did burn his scrotum off:
:eek: **OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! **
Whew! I used to use my laptop in bed, and it did get very hot. Glad I’m using a desk now.
Now we know why Sex And The City’s Carrie Bradshaw rests her laptop upon a cushion… she couldn’t risk burning her fangita now, could she?
FWIW, I use a cushion too, and it solves the problem.
“Bits”?
Good heavens! Male Dopers don’t have “bits”! They have GREAT SEETHING POUNDING BEASTS!
But aside from that…ow! That’s just gotta hurt!
Pfft. Who told you that?!
Well, no one, actually. I just assumed that the level of genius here on these boards was indicative of penis size as well.
please don’t burst my bubble…please…
Well, okay. 
Listen to Persephone. We do indeed have GREAT SEETHING POUNDING BEASTS!