Mary Lou Jepsen, the former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child and now president of design firm PixelQi, said that the key to greener gadgets is to design products for the millions of people in the developing world where low energy usage and simplicity are so important.
"If we rely on industrial designers to lead the green revolution and electronic gadgets, we will fail," she said, because they are trained to create high-end products, rather than the "bottom of the pyramid."
Here, she is pictured with the XO laptop at the Greener Gadgets conference.
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