SourceSlashdot wrote: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 even with a lap pad under the computer, the men's scrotums overheated quickly. "Millions and millions of men are using laptops now, especially those in the reproductive age range," said Dr. Yefim Sheynkin, a urologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who led the new study.
Is your laptop cooking your gonads?
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Is your laptop cooking your gonads?
I figured that The Ward would be the best place to post this...
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Re: Is your laptop cooking your gonads?
I dont own a laptop so my answer to my question is no however rusty uses laptop very often...
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Re: Is your laptop cooking your gonads?
bwahahahahaha......
that is why i rather place my laptop onto my big atlas instead of straight on my lap..... not that i have any gonads to fry.....
that is why i rather place my laptop onto my big atlas instead of straight on my lap..... not that i have any gonads to fry.....
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One of us is in for an interesting surprise...KatrynKat wrote:bwahahahahaha......
that is why i rather place my laptop onto my big atlas instead of straight on my lap..... not that i have any gonads to fry.....
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well, mine are not exposed as yours are..... that is what i meant.....doo_much wrote:One of us is in for an interesting surprise...KatrynKat wrote:bwahahahahaha......
that is why i rather place my laptop onto my big atlas instead of straight on my lap..... not that i have any gonads to fry.....
i won't get affected as badly as you guys will.....
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My gonads are already so hot they actually increase the temperature of the laptop causing it to crash.
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ROFL.....
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Mine are burnt to a crisp.
So much so that I figured I decided that removing of dust and resetting the thermal paste was in order.
Lets just say that I now know how to fully disassemble and reassemble an HP550. I also know where the two long screws should go (they are sitting in my car at the moment, in a big tube thing so I don't lose them).
I have also learned a valuable lesson. Really tiny screw driver sets are of the utmost importance.
BL: I never manged to get to the heatsink. I got to the motherboard. I just couldn't go further. I had the will, but not small enough tools.
This message is brought to you by said laptop. May it live long and prosper.
So much so that I figured I decided that removing of dust and resetting the thermal paste was in order.
Lets just say that I now know how to fully disassemble and reassemble an HP550. I also know where the two long screws should go (they are sitting in my car at the moment, in a big tube thing so I don't lose them).
I have also learned a valuable lesson. Really tiny screw driver sets are of the utmost importance.
BL: I never manged to get to the heatsink. I got to the motherboard. I just couldn't go further. I had the will, but not small enough tools.
This message is brought to you by said laptop. May it live long and prosper.
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Mr_Norris wrote:Mine are burnt to a crisp.
So much so that I figured I decided that removing of dust and resetting the thermal paste was in order.
Lets just say that I now know how to fully disassemble and reassemble an HP550. I also know where the two long screws should go (they are sitting in my car at the moment, in a big tube thing so I don't lose them).
I have also learned a valuable lesson. Really tiny screw driver sets are of the utmost importance.
BL: I never manged to get to the heatsink. I got to the motherboard. I just couldn't go further. I had the will, but not small enough tools.
This message is brought to you by said laptop. May it live long and prosper.
are you in the right thread... or is it my lack of knowledge that makes me think otherwise....
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He's in the right threadMine are burnt to a crisp.
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i got that bit.... it's the rest...
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Bwahahahahahaha and I read it that his gonads were burnt to a crisp. ROTFL
I have a stand with three fans underneath that keep my lappy (not my lap as I sit at the table) nice and cool. I cannot sit still long enough to have it on my lap. Besides - I would feel trapped.
I have a stand with three fans underneath that keep my lappy (not my lap as I sit at the table) nice and cool. I cannot sit still long enough to have it on my lap. Besides - I would feel trapped.
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I remember when this story (and the dangers of cell phones) hit a few years back and everyone in Tech said it was total rubbish.
Like you can set the bed afire when you work with your laptop on it.
Like you can set the bed afire when you work with your laptop on it.
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Re: Is your laptop cooking your gonads?
jee I was thinking the same thing, there was a article a couple of years back about laptops causing sterility.
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http://www.dailytech.com/New+Study+Show ... e13011.htm
It was cellphones.
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http://www.dailytech.com/New+Study+Show ... e13011.htm
It was cellphones.
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You clearly haven't felt how hot my lappie gets.
And I have heard that to keep a guy fertile - they have to hang loose and stay cool. So heat kinda cooks the little guys.
And I have heard that to keep a guy fertile - they have to hang loose and stay cool. So heat kinda cooks the little guys.
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interesting.... ....
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Prairie oysters?
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Sunny side up or hard?
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you !!!Hman wrote:Sunny side up or hard?
for me it depends on how i am feeling......
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KK - not the cooking thread this
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oh i know...Tribble wrote:KK - not the cooking thread this
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Hmmm i wonder if fried gonads needs HRT? * she said, frying her shrunked gonads*
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LOL. well i have read somewhere that keeping your laptop on your lap also causes some skin issue a rash i think it was.
so thats two reasons not to keep it on your lap.
what about netbooks? do people hold those in their palms while working? haven't used one myself but seen it on adverts they show a netbook on the palm.
so thats two reasons not to keep it on your lap.
what about netbooks? do people hold those in their palms while working? haven't used one myself but seen it on adverts they show a netbook on the palm.
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