Researchers at a New York university believe they've found evidence that laptop use of notebook computers by men can impair fertility.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook showed that prolonged laptop use heated men's testicles on the order of 5 degrees Fahrenheit, within the 1.8 degree to 5.2 degree range found to impair the production of male sperm.

The test sample was relatively small—29 people, according to reports—and the test subjects used an undisclosed Pentium 4-based laptop for an entire hour.

"We haven't yet seen the study, so we can't comment," a spokeswoman for Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., said in an instant message to ExtremeTech.

Still, the researchers now advise young men to avoid prolonged laptop use until future studies are performed. Using a laptop on a desk or on the lap with some form of thermal protection is advised.

Results will be published in the February 2005 issue of the European journal Human Reproduction.

Alot of the guys on this forum do not need to reproduce. Let them use their laptops till they drop!

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Apple Titanium users better start banking their sperm.

Odd -- no mention of what these guys were using their laptops for...

I wish I had known this five kids ago. I would have never used that stupid pull down tray on the plane.

but lap(top) dancers have the opposite effect ...

That's because their not browsing the right sites, if the were using the laptop for porn like it should be the laptop would be a table top hence reducing heat to the nether region.