Apparently you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Feast your eyes upon the world's first PC keyboard with - get this -- a built-in scanner. In the quest to clear some space off of your already cluttered desk, KeyScan has developed the KS810 integrated keyboard and sheet-feed scanner to meet both your scanning and keyboarding needs.

No bigger than a normal keyboard, the KS810 is capable of scanning color documents from business card size up to 8½" x 30". KeyScan claims it takes five seconds to scan a full-page, 300dpi, grayscale document, and documents can be scanned with an output resolution of up to 4800dpi and a true-optical resolution of 600dpi. Not bad for a keyboard.

Once scanned, you can email, copy, fax or save the document using PDF, Word, JPEG, TIF, and more. The bundled software, with button-free activation capability (just stick a document in the feed and start scanning), uses the IRIS OCR engine for word recognition. The Twain interface allows third-party scanning software to be used as well. The KS810 is compatible with Windows XP-SP2 or higher and Vista 32.

The next step: a mouse that doubles as a fax machine. Hey, I can dream.

Check out a live-action demo of the scanner here.