Continuous feed paper from a roll.
Press a button to automatically type current date and time.
Of course, when you hit a regular letter key, the letter immediately gets printed on the paper, as a typewriter should do.
But also consider a line printer: a small display permits writing and editing one line, then a button commits the line of text to paper.
Additional buttons for TH, NG, AND. Perhaps others. Because a typewriter is always in typing mode, there's no danger of an accidental keystroke sending many characters to an application not expecting text to be typed.
Push a button to signal typing is done. The typewriter then automatically appends a QR code version of what you've typed, so that what you typed can easily be scanned into digital form if desired. Then, it automatically cuts the paper.
More toy-like features, intended for children: Large print (font). This could especially be useful if the typist wants to leave a space to hand-draw an emoji. Large-print keyboard. Large keys. Key layout ABC...Z, not QWERTY (but changeable). Inspired by children being able to recognize letters before they can reliably write them by hand.
Freewrite is a vaguely similar product aimed for adults. It does not provide the instant gratification of keystrokes being immediately committed to physical paper, though that's not its point.
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