Health

Notebook heat causing skin problems
by Milota Sidorova

In every lap top manual there is a small passage about security. Actually, it is a piece of good advice, but since manuals are not very popular readings, notes are obviously misunderstood. One of these notes is to always place your notebook on solid surfaces that can reduce heating. But since notebooks are so easy to move and place and their shape is literally asking to be placed on laps. Although it is a certain damage for the hard disk and more often the notebook has been moved and placed somewhere, the shortest it will work properly, people seem to not to care about it. What seems to be interesting, perhaps bit funny is that damages are not significant only on hardware,! but also on users. Just recently doctors have developed a term for „toasted skin syndrome“ and it is nothing less than the skin damage caused by persistent heat. Although notebook can't burn the skin into the point of emergency, it can cause real troubles in long term. American doctors got a case of 12-year-old boy who spent few hours playing on his laptop for several months. The long term heat caused structural changes on his skin. The temperature in the machine can reach over 50 degrees. The worst case is when the person place the notebook directly on naked skin. The syndrome has appeared among people who were exposed to the long term heating object, for example people working in factories, bakers, glass bowers or people working with central heating. So far there has been about ten cases put into scientific journals, but inofficial statistics are reaching higher numbers. So the next time you're about to work with the notebook, think about your skin...
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related story (sgx18326): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_laptop_toasted_skin;_ylt=A...

by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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