S: Is for Get those laptops off your lap

Erythema ab igne refers to skin that is reddened due to repeated exposure to heat radiation. Causes can include exposure to open fire, or use of a computer on a lap extensively. Untreated, it can lead to skin cancer. This is from the Wikipedia that was installed on my Dell computer before I even bought it.
Since last January I have been using a Dell. My bedroom is bright in the morning and as a result I needed to move my computer off the desk onto my bed and thus my lap. I almost always had it on a pillow or I had sweats on (I like to be comfortable as I write). Since February I have been getting extremely tired. This December I had a problem with a skin rash on my chest and I saw a dermatologist. A couple of months prior to that I realized I had this weird bruise on my left leg so I decided since I was there I would ask about it. Imagine my shock and surprise to be told I had Erythema Ab Igne. I was informed that I needed a biopsy ASAP. When I got home I immediately called Dell and was given a case number but no one to talk to. I turned my computer upside down and there is an open space exactly where the computer rests on my leg. I realized the pillow I use was worn out exactly where the open space is. I looked in all the books and the back of the computer and nowhere does it say anything about being burned or radiation.
Though this disease has been known to derive from computers since 2004 in the UK, the computer industry has done nothing about protecting its users. The Dell inspiron 2650 is called a laptop. No one said you shouldn't use it on your lap. Nowhere was it written that this could cause permanent damage and hurt you beyond what you can conceive. Nowhere does it state that this computer can burn you. Nowhere in Dell's literature does it tell you how to solve this problem. Long ago companies stopped referring to laptops as "laptops". In a sort of perverse self-denial of engineered purpose, they're now formally called "notebooks". The reason…. it is documented that men can suffer from temporary infertility after prolonged laptop use. This is not related to the technology itself, but to the intense heat that the units emit. The longer a laptop is used, the hotter it gets. An engineer recently recorded the surface temperature of the bottom of a laptop reaching 50ºC after just 2 hours of use on a table. Now imagine what is does to your skin even when protected by clothing.
You may ask why Dell? Before this computer I had an HP and a MAC. I lived on a boat and spent a lot of time on them always bare legged. I always had to turn the computer upside down because the battery would become dislodged. They all were completely flat no open space. After I was diagnosed I went to a computer store and it was only Dell products that had wide-open spaces. Dell is 25th on the NASDAQ with assets listed at 568 Billion dollars. What I can’t understand is why they can’t warn consumers. Would it of cost that much?
I am lucky the doctor was knowledgeable and we caught this in time. It did not progress into skin cancer. I will however have to be tested for the next 5 years. On February 22 I will be the show and tell at the Dermatology Convention in New York. If I have anything to say about it I will warn as many people as I can about Erythema Ab Igne and the danger of putting your laptops on your lap. This shouldn't’t be my job but since the computer companies aren’t doing their’s I will take this on. Life should not be threatened by corporations neglect to tell the truth and that is most definitely a F.A.C.T.