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101 things to do with a warm laptop

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45: Use it like a hot water bottle for when you have cold/flu, but without the water of course
 
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46. I always use mine in place of a hotplate during Chemistry Lab.

But seriously, have you felt how hot the powerpack gets? I gave myself a 2nd degree burn handling that. You could fuse atoms with one of those.

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use it as a bomb timer..... when it gets hot enough it would light the fuse wire.
 
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47. Strap a few to the front of research vessels in the polar regions to ease their passage through the ice.
 
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48. Use it as an alternative source of light (not sure how hot were allowed to go)

49. Fight Iceman in a battle of epic proportions.
 
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50. Place it under your coat in the winter to keep you warmer.
 
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51. Lay it in front of your toilet so you can warm your feet rather than freeze them on the cold tiles.

Half way there!!
 
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52. Throw one in the pool when the solar heating system is on the blink.
 
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53. Use it at your next party to keep food warm
54. Fast food restaurants can use it to keep their food warm

(does being commercial make it different enough to count these as two??)
 
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use it to boil some water for a hot drink

or

make ur pot noodles !
 
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Give your date a hot backrub....
 
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58. put your paper in the closed lid to give it that old timey look.
 
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59. Use it to confuse any aliens you meet who have infra-red/heat vision.
 
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60. Heating your bathwater
 

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61) hot rock in a lizard terarium
 
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62. Eject it from an airplane to confuse incoming heat-seeking missiles.
 
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63. heated scalp massager
 
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64. Use it to cauterize wounds.

Like that scene in Braveheart, "That'll wake you up in the morning!"
 
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