A whole new world with the Webb Telescope 🔭
Have you heard of the James Webb Space Telescope? It’s one of the hottest news this week - and you’ll see why.
It’s pretty much a bigger, better telescope that’s been developed to give us higher resolutions of images from space (like from 140p to 720/1080p haha). Know what this means? A whole new level of discovering our universe and our origins! Check out its resolution - more about this below.
Here’s what we’ve put together for your weekly Spark reads:
Shots is looking for beta testers 🔍
1 link to rule them all with Bio Link 🔗
A whole new world with the Webb Telescope 🔭
Solving plastic pollution with the Plastic Scanner 🛍
Give the Spark Events are back in Hong Kong ⚡️
💙 NEWS FROM OUR MATESShots is looking for beta testers 🔍
When it comes to presentation, we all know the impact of sexy mockups. Mockups help your users, investors or just about anyone better understand and visualize your products, a milestone closer to making them REAL. So yes, we were very excited to discover Shots!
Shots is an online platform that allows you to drag, drop and insert seamlessly into different frames for desktop, phones and even social media posts. You can choose your own styles and backgrounds, and be sure to have aesthetically-pleasing presentations no matter what. They’re currently open for beta testers - reply with a “🔥” on their Twitter post to get your access code and 3 months of Shots free!
🤸 FUN PRODUCT WE LOVE1 link to rule them all with Bio Link 🔗
Most social platforms like Instagram or Twitter would only allow a single website link on your bio, so being able to have multiple Call-to-Actions for your website, upcoming event or product promotion can be tricky. You might have heard of Later or Linktree doing this and offering free plans, but Bio Link is now here to give you full customization and use for free, forever.
(It’s the next fav tool of entrepreneurs! BIG thank you to developers who build free tools 💙)
Features:
1 link for all your links. This link can be bio.link/yourname , yourname.bio.link or your own domain (coming soon!).
Add socials and custom links. Direct visitors to your personal or company socials and links.
Embed widgets from apps. So you can add a Spotify player to preview your podcast, video from youtube or even tweets without making visitors leave your link page. Shopify items are also coming soon!
100% customizable. Change up your colors, background, fonts, button styles and more.
15+ theme library. For those who just want to get started.
Fast page loading. In 100ms to be exact!
SEO-ready. Allows you to edit your SEO meta titles and descriptions for search engines to pick up!
Who it’s for: Anyone who needs 1 link for multiple call-to-actions (For post-specific links, we suggest using Later!)
Price: Free forever. They’ve already got +4M users!
💭 TECH FOOD FOR THOUGHTA whole new world with the Webb Telescope 🔭
Gosh, how beautiful is that?
The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, created to see farther into our origins like the formation of stars and planets, help answer outstanding questions we have, and to continue making breakthrough discoveries in astronomy!
Last week, NASA announced a critical milestone of reaching full focus with the telescope. Then yesterday, tweeted a sneak peek on exactly how powerful the new telescope is, being compared from the retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Engineers are beyond impressed and agency officials says its resolution is “as good as physically possible” for the telescope’s size.
Imagine how much more we’ll see, and learn?
🌱 TECH FOR SUSTAINABILITYSolving plastic pollution with the Plastic Scanner 🛍
Only 9% of plastics get recycled. 12% gets incinerated and 79% goes to landfills or our oceans. Why? Because the sorting facilities or technologies you’d find in developed countries, you couldn’t find in the developing countries yet. Unfortunately, it just hasn’t been as accessible. This is what Jerry de Vos wanted to fix, and has since been developing an open-source design for anyone to build their own Plastic Scanners!
The Plastic Scanner mimics the way large factories sort plastics using infrared reflection/spectroscopy. It’s a well-known technique for identifying different types of plastics, but is very costly to build. Jerry and his team built a new and low-cost approach with “discrete” infrared spectroscopy, including an easy assemble-it-yourself breakout board and instructions on how to transform it into a handheld device - ready to be picked up and built by anyone. Their designs are available on WikiFactory!
💥 WHAT’S ON @ SPARKMATEGive the Spark Events are back in Hong Kong ⚡️
Now that Hong Kong’s restrictions have loosened, we’re bringing life back with another casual, fun #AskMeAnything / #AMA session! 🚀 These are when we invite experts of various fields who will share their experiences, and answer any question or satiate any curiosity we have (because the start of many innovations and ideas come from conversations).
We’re restarting with a topic many of you have asked us about: How To: Bring Artificial Intelligence to your Products/Businesses 🧠
👋 Our guest will be Kevin Pereira, Managing Director of Blu Artificial Intelligence
💬 He will go through:
🧠 How AI works
🏭 How different businesses/industries are using AI
🔮 Future-proofing your products/businesses
🏁 Getting started
👀 What to expect in the future of AI
& any more you'd like to ask!
If you’re in the city, come join us! If you’re not, is there a question you’d like us to ask Kevin for you?
Exciting things are happening every day ⚡️ Follow us on social media to stay tuned!