Laptops May Lead to Infertility

[DudeAsInCool]

December 09, 2004

Careful, lads, that laptop might burn your genes

By Sam Lister

Scientists have linked portable computers and male infertility

BUSINESSMEN and teenage boys could be risking their fertility by using laptop computers, research suggests.

The combination of heat generated by the computers and the posture needed to balance the equipment on the lap leads to raised temperatures around the scrotum, a study has found. Past research shows that higher scrotal temperatures can damage sperm and affect fertility. And the introduction of new technology such as Bluetooth and infrared connections — which provide wireless links to the internet — has resulted in a growing number of men using the machines on their thighs rather than at a desk.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1395183,00.html

[Wolfie]

Spammers beware!

Bring on the tinfoil boxers. :bigsmile:

[Kooperman]

That'll be a bag of roasted nuts to go, please.....

[Redneck4sure]

Raise the average I.Q. in America by controlling reproduction. Give a liberal a laptop.

[Wolfie]

Using 29 volunteers aged 21 to 35, the researchers, led by Yefim Sheynkin, found that sitting with the thighs together to balance a laptop caused scrotal temperatures to rise by 2.1C. But when the laptop was in use, average temperatures rose by 2.6C on the left of the scrotum and 2.8C on the right

Who exactly volunteers for this stuff?

[Redneck4sure]

liberals.

Rednecks don't go for that kind of stuff. :)

[Ken]

Raise the average I.Q. in America by controlling reproduction. Give a liberal a laptop

No, no. You have that backwards.

It's "give a REDNECK a laptop".

Remember this.....

Redneck = Drooling moron mistake of a human being

[Redneck4sure]

[Ken]

In other news, I own a laptop/notebook.

However, I don't use it in the manner that is spoken. I don't actually have it on my lap. Though, I can see Mr. or Mrs/Miss Business Ass in an airport somewhere with it right atop his/her crotch.

I say we all shove uranium down our pants.