Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?

[george]

Is your laptop cooking your testicles?

Whoever invented the 'laptop' probably didn't worry too much about male reproductive health.

Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality.

And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study out today in the journal Fertility and Sterility, short of putting your laptop on a desk.

The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men who were balancing a laptop on their knees. They found that ...

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A457320101108

[UberBraun]

Those who cook their testicles with their laptop deserve to win the Darwin award.

[smokie36]

Nothing wrong with my 17 inch laptop.

[givenall]

New method of birth control. Too many people in this world anyways

[craigt3365]

Great...reading this as I'm laying on the sofa, laptop right above the family jewels...but luckily, don't want kids any more!!!!!

[lopburi3]

http://intelligentforms.net/products/laptop-pillows/

[siamect]

Hmmm I could have saved the 12000 baht I paid for getting the things unmounted...

[1weatherman]

I use my laptop as a space heater. So I guess the answer to the questions of the day is: yes and they're well done.

[astral]

Most laptops are poorly designed as they suck in the cooling air on the underside.

Using the machine on your lap is probably blocking the air vent and making it run hotter than it should,

and possibly shortening its life.

I mount my laptop on my desk, with a cooling pad using three fans to ensure

maximum air flow. It is powered off the usb.

[apollo13]

    ...............e-sectomy

[apollo13]

 

I mount my laptop on my desk, 

kinky 

[Lois]

It will burn the skin on your laps too.

[Crossy]

Not laptop (or for that matter Thailand) related, but some years ago whilst working in Malaysia one of our Malay chaps was using a wired hands-free on his mobile. The theory being that he could hold the phone away from his head to avoid cooking his brain.

I did point out that keeping the mobile in his pocket whilst using the hands-free was toasting something more important than his brain. Never saw the hands-free again

[Junglejingle]

Cooked brain....toasted nuts...what a hot combination...lol...

[kurnell]

How are you supposed to have a whack when your laptop is covering your nads? Or do most people use their laptop for other purposes?