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Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven googol years for your Shakespeare.

One of the nice things about reading electronic text is the fact that if there's a word you don't understand, you can just highlight it to do a Google search. Well, a device called the Googstick is designed to do the same thing for printed text.

Imagine a future where text messaging is tracked by an algorithm that can identify truth from lies. A study suggests this kind of online polygraph is entirely possible, with early experiments showing a machine learning algorithm can separate truth from lies over 85 percent of the time.

Smartwatch screens make some functions, like entering text, more fiddly than they’d be on a phone. Now a team from Stony Brook University has developed a rotational keyboard that allows users to pick letters from a ring around the screen, like an old rotary phone.

Art has always been fundamentally intertwined with technology. New techniques and materials have constantly allowed artists to innovate and create new types of works. We take a look at the rise and fall of ASCII art, whose roots can be traced back to the text-based artworks of the 19th century.

GoTenna is a pen-sized Bluetooth device that is designed to keep your group connected to each other, even when there's no network around. We tried out a pair deep in the southern Rocky Mountains to see how they performed.

It's generally just accepted that text embedded in images on the Web is inaccessible. Because images are rendered as a single layer, that's just the way it is ... or was, because a new extension for Google Chrome called Project Naptha now allows users to highlight and copy text from within images.

In the airwriting system, a sensor-equipped glove is used to identify letters drawn in the air by the wearer, which are then converted into digital text.