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Doodle on your Facebook and Twitter in real-time with UbiSketch

(CBS) - We're all guilty of it... Whether you're in class or a meeting, you doodle to pass time. Never do you ever share your doodles with your social networks. Who's going to take the time to scan silly drawings if only to give friends a good laugh?

But we bet if the process was more simple than that, you would showcase your cool doodles to followers. That's where UbiSketch comes in. The digital pen lets you upload your drawings to Twitter, Facebook, even your email.

Check out the video above. "UbiSketch uses an Anoto digital pen to covert hand-drawn images into pictures on your phone. The pen works by reading a pattern of dots printed on the page, letting it track its position as you draw, and sends data to your phone via Bluetooth," reports NewScientist.

Lisa Cowan and her colleagues at the University of California San Diego are developing the technology. "Cowan and team created a notebook printed with the dot pattern and added a flap with paper 'buttons' for saving or uploading your work that can be activated by tapping them with the pen," NewScientist explains. "The phone, which can display the image as you draw or just sit in your pocket, then uploads the file to the UbiSketch server, where it is sent on to the social network of your choice."

It's so cool, we can't wait for this technology to be available to the masses. It's going to make artists out of all of us. Maybe an art dealer will even discover your fine work on one of your streams.

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