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Carrying a fat wallet can be a pain. Its bulkiness makes the back pocket of your jeans a rather unattractive shape. It is even said to harm your back because you have to sit in this slightly slanted position. It’s … Continue reading




In cooperation with our friends at ETH Zurich we have been working on automatic image recognition for places such as landmark buildings for a while. We think it reached a level, where it can be of benefit to our Déjà … Continue reading


September 16, 2011 at 10:46 AM by Till | 0 Comments

Faster recognition for all our products



Breaking news from the kooaba engineering team: In the last couple of weeks we deployed a new release of our image recognition platform, which, among other benefits, is quite a bit faster than our previous release. This migration is now … Continue reading


September 07, 2011 at 03:54 PM by Till | 0 Comments

An in-depth look at the Déjà Vu Web app



As you may know, kooaba Déjà Vu consists of a mobile and a web application. And to get the most out of Déjà Vu it’s really best if you use them in combination. We thought we record a small tutorial … Continue reading


September 06, 2011 at 07:45 AM by Till | 0 Comments

New Release of Paperboy for iPhone and Android



While the focus of news has been on Déjà Vu in the recent weeks, we have not forgotten our Paperboy! We just released new versions both for Android and iPhone. The most visible novelty is probably the new icon. This … Continue reading


September 01, 2011 at 03:35 PM by Till | 0 Comments

Get the first update of Déjà Vu for iPhone



It’s exactly three weeks since we launched Déjà Vu and we can already follow up with a small update. Without further ado, here’s what’s new: Better map display The map is a great way to browse your visual memos. We … Continue reading


August 18, 2011 at 02:31 PM by Till | 0 Comments

Déjà Vu connects with Evernote



If we were asked to list our favorite companies, Evernote would defintely take one of the top spots. We love Evernote, the product, simply because it’s one of the rare tools that proves to be really useful, and not just … Continue reading


August 11, 2011 at 04:43 PM by Till | 2 Comments

Want visual memory? Try kooaba Déjà Vu!



Do you use your iPhone to remember things by taking pictures of stuff? For instance wine labels, furniture, book covers, newspaper articles, food, recipes, receipts …? Congratulations: you use your iPhone as visual memory! This reduces information overflow and keeps … Continue reading




As you know, our Smart Ads make print advertising interactive using image recognition. Using our Paperboy mobile app, a user snaps a picture of an ad. The ad is recognized using image recognition and she receives a digital response directly … Continue reading


June 15, 2011 at 11:54 PM by Till | 1 Comment

New version of kooaba Paperboy for Android



We released a new version of kooaba Paperboy for Android. You may know that we started offering Android apps when there was only one Android phone available. With time the codebase got a bit old, and thus, the new version … Continue reading


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