Casio Friendly Memo Data Bank DBJ-22

Today I'm wearing another watch which is a variation on a model I've blogged before.

Those who have been following for a while may remember I posted a Friendly Memo Data Bank watch back in May. That one was the DBJ-24 rather than today's DBJ-22, and featured cats and dogs compared to the boys and girls in this model.

It is part of the Casio Data Bank range of watches and has a memo feature where you can store the name, phone number, and date of birth for your friends. As this is a Friendly Memo model, you can also assign a face to the contact choosing the face and the head style (boy or girl and hair style). The watch is a Japanese model, so all of the input is in Japanese characters (unless there is a language shift option that I haven't found). The contacts are also used in a game called Fit where you choose two of your contacts and it runs a compatability check  showing a number of stars in the hearts box and a percentage score.

The watch has a hybrid LCD display with a normal 6 digit number display along the bottom, a set of 9 star symbols in a 3x3 pattern (which fills with the seconds), and a dot matrix array. The dot matrix shows the picture of  a girl by default, who is animated to look around and pull faces (especially when the button marked forward is held).

This model uses a 1437 module (compared to a 1537 in the cat and dog model), and has alarm and stopwatch modes too.

Casio Friendly Memo Data Bank DBJ-24

There are many cute designs of watch out there, but none match the combination of cute, high tech and functional as today's model.

The watch is the Friendly Memo watch by Casio. It is part of their Data Bank range and has a model number of DBJ-24. The cute part is the most noticeable when you look at the display - one third of the LCD panel is devoted to an animated picture of a cat's face. The cat displays various emotions from happy to sad, it yawns, and even sleeps during the night. Holding the forward button also makes the cat pull funny faces (the reverse button makes it show the date). It uses a dot matrix array for the cat, but it's not a full grid, only covering where the cat will be.

To the right of the cat is a grid with hearts, people, and pencils which fills with the seconds during time mode, and seems to have something to do with the data bank too.

The time is displayed across the bottom of the LCD panel with a standard 6 digit display.

The data bank is quite special in this watch too. As normal, you can add a name, phone number and birthday, but then you also get to choose a character. The character changes the cat picture to a range of different cats and dogs where you can pick the type, and separately select a face :)

Apart from the data bank, the 1537 module gives this watch alarm and stopwatch functions, and another unusual feature called 'fit'. In this function, you select two people from your data bank and the watch works out their compatability, giving a number of hearts and a percentage score!

I'm not exactly sure when it was released, but I think it is from the 80s. There doesn't seem to be much info online about this watch except a couple that have been for sale - that did show that there was a couple of colour variations.