Laptops and infertility: It matters how you sit

Keeping legs together generates more unwanted scrotum heat than machine itself

If guys can find a way to operate laptop computers with their legs apart, they might limit their risk of infertility, a new study finds. Keeping the legs splayed while using a laptop generated substantially less damaging heat in the scrotum than keeping legs together, scientists report online November 8 in Fertility and Sterility.