Although sedated, he was fully awake and even talked to operating room staff during the procedure.

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Rest assured that I would far rather experience a colonoscopy while fully awake than ever have to experience this again.

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It's more like "half-asleep" texting, as doctors describe it as a state of rest where a person isn't fully awake.

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In previous work, they demonstrated that phones in idle listening mode expend roughly the same amount of power as they do when they're fully awake.

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And, so long as you've got the laptop out, you might as well join us in 2012 and do all your shopping the way Al Gore intended: Online, half-awake and fully bloated.

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But he noted that "Maggie's Law" doesn't fully solve the problem because prosecutors must show that a driver had been awake for 24 consecutive hours to prove possible recklessness, which is often a difficult proposition.

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