Danger, danger Bill Gates-son. Yes, it's the nightmare scenario we've all been dreading. Microsoft is building an army of robots that will eventually take over the planet – and then crash, leaving 7 billion people on hold with tech support. So far, though, it's just an army of one, and he's only 14 inches tall. At this week's International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, ZMP set loose its e-nuvo WALK 3, a 5.5-pound Danger, danger Bill Gates-son. Yes, it’s the nightmare scenario we’ve all been dreading. Microsoft is building an army of robots that will eventually take over the planet – and then crash, leaving 7 billion people on hold with tech support. So far, though, it’s just an army of one, and he’s only 14 inches tall. At this week’s International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, ZMP set loose its e-nuvo WALK 3, a 5.5-pound biped bot that runs on Microsoft’s Robotics Studio software and will be available in Japan next year for around $5400. Call it a BPOD — Blue Planet of Death. The 411 on that 419. A Nigerian company is suing the One Laptop Per Child project for patent infringement. Lagos Analysis Corp. claims the $100 $188 laptop do-gooders reverse engineered its patented keyboard technology, which allows users to easily produce diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.) essential to most non-English alphabets. I understand the Nigerians are willing to settle the suit amicably, if Nicolas Negroponte agrees to help them smuggle out $35 million of government funds embezzled by an ex-cabinet minister. Rotten to the Gore. First the Supreme Court pulled the rug out from underneath his presidential dreams. Now cyberscammers have done the same to Al Gore’s Web site. The blog page for the ex-veep’s award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth was apparently hacked via a vulnerability in WordPress. Though the pages weren’t altered in any visible way, their source code was engorged with links to sites hawking Viagra and Cialis in an effort to pump up the pharma sites’ Googe Juice. The good news: Using such substances can be carbon neutral, provided you don’t breath too hard. Skip to the loo. On the go and gotta go? Just send a text with the word “toilet” and you’ll receive a message back with the location of the nearest, um, facilities. At least you will if you live in London, where the new “SatLav” service pinpoints the location of 40 public toilets in the city’s busiest tourist district. SatLav is the brainchild of the British Toilet Association, which is apparently just down the hall from The Ministry of Silly Walks. Got hot news or slanderous gossip? Lay it on me bro or post it below. Top tipsters qualify for cool swag. Think you’ve got the right stuff to pass our tech quizzes? They’re not as easy as they look: • The InfoWorld News Quiz • Test Your Geek IQ • Test Your Network Security IQ Software DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business