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From CNN.COM 22.nov.02
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Laptops have always been a hot item
but a 50-year-old scientist did not realise 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 was
not until he was examined by a doctor that he realised 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 centimetres (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.
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