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French Enduro Champion Bellino Returns to Off-Road with Segway Side-by-Side

Paris – September 09, 2026 -- French enduro champion Mathias Bellino is opening a new chapter in his off-road career with support from Segway Powersports, which has provided him with a Super Villain SX20T side-by-side vehicle.

Bellino built a decorated career before a 2018 crash ended professional racing

Bellino won the Enduro Junior World Championship in 2012 and the Enduro E3 World Championship in 2015. He was also part of French teams that won the ISDE Junior World Trophy three consecutive years, from 2011 to 2013. Raised in a family passionate about motorcycles, he started riding at age four before moving through motocross into elite enduro competition.

In August 2018, during his first cross-country rally, the Desafío Ruta 40 in Argentina, Bellino crashed and suffered severe spinal injuries while working toward his goal of competing in the Rallye Dakar. The accident ended his career as a professional racer.

L'Oréal Opens 5 Iconic French Sites for Heritage Weekend

Levallois-Perret – September 08, 2026 -- L'Oréal is opening five of its landmark French sites to the public on September 19 and 20, 2026, as part of the 43rd European Heritage Days.

Five sites reveal the science behind everyday beauty products

Visitors can tour the Episkin research center in Lyon, the luxury skincare production plant in Caudry, the historic Paris headquarters known as "Le Visionnaire," the Thermal Center in La Roche-Posay, and the Domaine de la Rose in Grasse. This marks the fourth consecutive year L'Oréal has taken part in the national heritage event.

France anchors over a century of L'Oréal research and manufacturing

The company operates 11 industrial sites and 7 research centers in France, employing 2,700 researchers. L'Oréal invests nearly one billion euros annually in research and innovation, spanning early hair dye formulas, sunscreen development, and current AI-driven research into skin aging.

Dyson's New Toothbrush Has a Built-In Camera to Find Plaque

Paris – September 07, 2026 -- Dyson has unveiled the CameraJet, a toothbrush with a built-in camera designed to locate gaps between teeth and clean them with a targeted jet of mouthwash. The company says it is the first brush of its kind to combine camera-guided detection with precision fluid dynamics, and it goes on sale September 1, 2026, priced at 479 euros.

A tiny camera tracks gaps between teeth in real time

A 100,000-pixel macro lens camera scans the mouth during brushing, using a machine-learning system Dyson calls Gap Optical Targeting. The algorithm processes 28 live images per second to detect, track, and predict interdental gaps, then fires a cone-shaped mouthwash jet at the identified spot within 100 milliseconds. Dyson says the system runs on 16 million lines of code and was trained on 470,000 images of teeth.