To encourage girls? interest in STEM, MGA Entertainment launched four dolls to focus on each aspect of the field: science, technology, engineering and maths. Each doll in the line, known as Project Mc?, comes with an experiment kit to inspire kids to play and learn.

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory. Now, for the first time, a team of refugees is competing in Rio. The team includes two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a marathon runner from Ethiopia and five middle-distance runners from South Sudan.

Digital Rangers is an augmented reality application that uses object, location, outline, and image recognition to trigger indigenous stories on your phone in a hologram-like way at cultural places around the world. www.indigital.net.au

In this documentary Michael Moore looks at the benefits of schooling in France, Finland and Slovenia. In Italy, he marvels at how workers enjoy reasonable hours and generous vacation time. In Portugal, he notes the effects of the decriminalization of drugs. Norway shows him a jail system that focusses on rehabilitation and results in low recidivism. In Iceland he sees how bankers were prosecuted after the financial crisis and how women now have equality to the benefit of society. He's told that many of these ideas came from the US which has taken a different path.

Miito is being developed to heat any liquid in the vessel of your choice to the temperature you choose. It boils a cup of water in 60 secs- there's no need to heat excess water in a kettle. Pre-orders are now being taken. www.miito.com

Blogfabrik in Berlin offers you a desk and a network of peers in exchange for text, images and film. It's Germany's first coworking space where bloggers, instagrammers, photographers and videographers pay for their workspace with content. www.blogfabrik.de