Please don’t use laptop, tv on bed

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Friends, please avoid using laptop on your bed because placing your computers on soft surfaces like mattress, blankets prevent air circulation from cooling devices on the lower surface of laptop. I came to learn from a forwarded mail that recently on July 4th a 25 year old man died in a fire at his home. This is what happened. He graduated with MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier and came home. Had a lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to clean up his room at school. His father told him to wait and see his mother before he goes back for a few days. He decided to take a snooze while waiting for his mom to come home from work. Neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house. This 25 years young man died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by lap top in the bed. When the lap top is on the bed cooling fan does not get air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get out of the bed he died of carbon monoxide. Friends most of us use our laptop, note book on bed. The heat can also kill sperm cells if kept on lap. So let us all decide and make it a practice not to do that. [u][i][b]Risk is real. Let us make it a rule not to use lap top in bed or put computer on bed with blankets and pillows around. Please also avoid having computers, TVs, mobile phones, in your bedrooms! If you can't avoid, place them far from the beds.[/b][/i][/u]I do use a Toshiba laptop, but I keep it over a portable stand made for it specially, it has small studs, such that when placed there is a half inch gap between them to dissipate the heat. Do you use laptop, note book at home, or use a desk top? Where do you keep that? Please comment on this too. Professor