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Ice laptops chill on streets of London

Tech support firm Inbay places ice sculptures of laptops around town to remind people that frozen laptops hamper productivity and promote its services.

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Laptop ice sculpture
A frozen laptop, looking like an old Dell running Windows 98. Inbay

As PR stunts go, this one is pretty cool. So cool, in fact, that it's ice.

Inbay, a new U.K. tech support company, placed ice sculptures of laptops around London today to promote its online and telephone customer support services. Its first walk-in shop has also launched in London's Kingsway.

So where do the frozen laptops come in? Well, Inbay notes that frozen laptops hamper many a worker's productivity. So please stop sticking yours in snowdrifts OK?

The company offers a bunch of basic anti-freeze tips for mobile devices that we probably don't need to tell Crave readers: keep up on software updates; don't toss your clothes on top of fans or air vents; and restart your device once in a while to clear the cache and allow "forgotten" running processes to stop. And, of course, if you're typing on a keyboard made of ice, consider wearing gloves.

Making ice sculpture
An ice sculptor carves a cool laptop outside Inbay's store in London. Inbay