First came the spoiler alert that a hot laptop on your lap could lower your sperm count and motility. While men were dealing with this dampener, here comes another scalding statutory warning: your laptop can give you ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’, with angry boils and discoloured patches on your thighs from prolonged cosying up with your laptop.

Gaming buffs beware; a boy hooked to playing with his laptop resting on his bod needed emergency dermatological help after reporting ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’ (TSS). He had to be treated for sponge-patterned patches on the thighs.Pediatrics warn that avid networkers with a zillion Twitter updates hourly realize that their laptop is heating up, but do not bother to change the position of their gizmo.

Dermatologists say that the 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit worth of heat emitted by the battery or optical drive of a computer is enough to cause ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’. In rare case scenarios, prolonged exposure to heat can cause permanent darkening and mottling of skin, and even cause skin cancers.

A trip down medical lane says that the condition is called “erythema abigne”, and this roasting is common in those who work around open kiln fires, or barbecues. To avoid being barbecued yourself, just position a laptop bag or insulating pad between your body and the laptop and surf happily. Direct contact with bare skin means getting scorched, so avoid TSS and skin legions with proper insulation. And if you are a hottie cyber feminist who would put Neuromancer’s Molly to shame, well, heat cannot singe fire.