Keyboard with built in flash memory?

There is no forum for keyboards. So I thought this forum seemed the next best thing.
Anyway if you look down the side of an apple keyboard. you'll notice that there is a lot of space wasted (all be it, rather thin long, and triangle shaped). Now combined with the fact that a lot of wired keyboards stay on the desk, almost permanently (eg plugged into the apple cinema display, see the link, hehe), why not build in lots of flash memory, to use it as a desktop harddrive. It would be perfect for laptops that you "dock" when you get home. And basically it would contain all the stuff you don't need with you at all times "on the road", such as movies or even backups.
Ok so were probably still a long way off from being able to build enough storage space for backups, but the idea is there.
I'm not really a fan of the big bulky harddrives that sit on your desktop (i do like the time capsules which sit out the way, nice and wireless like)
but even if there were just lots of sd card slots on the inside of the long foot thing, we could fit 13 cards and hence a total of 416GB (13 x 32GB). Now all that would be needed would be a way of combining them into one virtual drive.
Wow that would be an expensive keyboard lol:
£28 - keyboard
£50 - 32GB SDHC memory x 13
= £678
Anyway theres my idea.
Please shoot it down or whatever. Tis just an idea. (Maybe for the future ...)
James
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