Great headline
November 9th, 2010 at 8:43 am by David FarrarReuters reports:
Is your laptop cooking your testicles?
What a great headline. And they go on:
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.
I use a cushion. I’m not sure if that helps much.
To hold a laptop on your knees, however, you need to sit still with your legs closed. After one hour in this position, the researchers found that men’s testicle temperature had risen by up to 2.5 C.
A lap pad kept the computer cool and also made sure less heat was transmitted to the skin. But it didn’t do much to cool the testicles, and might give “a false sense of security,” according to Sheynkin.
Guess not. However I normally have legs crossed, so hopefully that reduces the impact also.
Tags: laptops, scrotums
November 9th, 2010 at 8:45 am
I’m always careful to bathe my testicles in a cool basin of milk and honey while using my laptop. Or cellphone. Or can-opener. Any time, really. Any time is good.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Use your brains and sit at a table.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Good form of contraception.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 8:53 am
If I’m not at a table I use my copy of Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II — the cover shows American battleships in line-ahead punching through a Pacific swell near the Philippines …
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Did the survey record which websites the young men were visiting
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Surely it only matters if you actually want to get one past the goalie.
Are the writers really worried that not enough of us who can afford a laptop in the first place are breeding or something?
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Some years ago it was reported that some American traffic cops would leave their microwave speed guns sitting on their laps with the ‘nozzle’ pointing at you know where. Presumably laser speed guns has eliminated that potential hazard.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Men’s fertility rates are apparently dropping significantly. There are many possible reasons.
# Stop smoking cigarettes or marijuana.
Vote:# Decrease your drinking.
# Watch your weight.
# Exercise in moderation.
# Value your vitamins.
# Turn your back on toxins.
# Use a proper computer
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51101
November 9th, 2010 at 9:17 am
I wonder if they used a probe to test the temperatures?
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Come on David, you don’t have a lap, and haven’t had one for years
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am
I have not made an exhaustive study of this, David, but I would suggest crossing your legs for any length of time would trap localised heat more than a position of legs just closed.
Je détesterais que vous pourriez jepardise une dynastie.
[DPF: I mean crossed at the ankles, ie like one used to sit on the floor at primary school - not crossed at the thighs]
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:36 am
I am sensing a business opportunity, bollocks coolers!
Vote:A little radiator stuck out the front of your jeans, bogans will love them!
November 9th, 2010 at 9:49 am
^^^ That would make a welcome change from the kind of bollocks you’re more normally trying to sell, eh shunter
You’d almost think it is the closed legs, not the laptop, that are responsible for the heating…?
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Life imitates art – again.
South Park – Season 14, Episode 3: Medicinal Fried Chicken.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Apparently it is not just a modern problem.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@ Shunda – someone’s already beaten you to it; I have a lap-top holder with a built-in fan underneath which cools both the lap-top and the lap!
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I am assuming that all politicians are issued with a lap top. (It would explain a lot)
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 10:09 am
I didn’t realise you needed a cushion David: I love the AA!
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Sorry, but the image of DPF in ann airport lounge with his legs cropped at the thighs (yes yes yes he denies it now
), huddled over his laptop which is precariously balanced on his lap, is simply too funny for words! What would Whaleoil and Cactus Kate have to say about that that if it were true?
[DPF: In an airport lounge I use the very useful tables they provide for laptops.
I only use the laptop on my lap at home, as I prefer to work from the couch in front of the telly, rather than at the table]
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 11:29 am
In breaking news…. the green party is distrubed by reports of hot knackers when using that filthy imperialist tool the laptop.
Spokesperson Keith Delahunty-Bradford AKA Toad is calling for the immediate institution of a bollocks inspectorate.
“We are well placed to offer our services as bollocks inspectors,as we have a proven track record in this area, why, it is on that tory blog (Kiwiblog) that we are regularly accused of speaking bollocks, and we concur” said Keith.
Vote:November 9th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Stop digging David.
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