Dell eyes move into wearable computing space: Report

Dell is said to be eyeing a move into the wearable computing space to counter a decline in revenue from its traditional PC business.

A report in The Guardian quotes Sam Burd, Dell's Global Vice-President of Personal Computing as saying that the company is exploring ideas beyond the PC world.

"Looking ahead five years, we expect devices and form factors to continue to change," Burd said. "There will still be a need for 'static' computing on desktops, but there will be a real need for mobile devices. There's a lot of discussion about how that fits into wearable devices like we've seen with Google Glass and watches. We're looking at a world of lots of connected devices."

Burd, however, said he doesn't expect something as revolutionary as iPad to come up anytime soon, and admits that Apple's tablet took everyone by surprise.

"I don't see any magic new form factor like the iPad - I don't think anybody saw how that was going to change devices. But the number of [computing] devices per person is exploding."

With PC sales declining sharply, companies like Dell are looking at other streams of revenue and alternate computing devices are a logical thing

With PC sales declining sharply, companies like Dell are looking at other streams of revenue. Wearable computing has garnered a lot of interest from industry insiders as well as casual observers ever since Google demoed Glass at last year's Google I/O conference. Recently, Sony announced its SmartWatch 2, a second screen for Android devices. Apple is said to be in the next in line, as evident from its move to trademark 'iWatch' in Japan and other countries.

Others like Google, Samsung, Microsoft, and LG are all said to be working on bringing their own smart watch-like devices to the market.