Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

TOKYO, Japan - A man wearing Goldwin Inc.'s heartbeat-counting shirt "C3fit IN-pulse" runs on a treadmill in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. The shirt is to be combined with a device to transmit pulse data to a smartphone.

Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

TOKYO, Japan - A woman wearing Goldwin Inc.'s heartbeat-counting shirt "C3fit IN-pulse" poses on a treadmill in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. The shirt is to be combined with a device to transmit pulse data to a smartphone.

Prototype jacket made of synthetic spider silk unveiled

Prototype jacket made of synthetic spider silk unveiled

Sportswear maker Goldwin Inc. head Akio Nishida (R) and bio venture company Spiber Inc. leader Kazuhide Sekiyama announce a prototype jacket made of synthetic spider silk material during a press event in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

Sporting goods maker develops pulse-counting shirt

TOKYO, Japan - A man wearing Goldwin Inc.'s heartbeat-counting shirt "C3fit IN-pulse" runs on a treadmill in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. The shirt is to be combined with a device to transmit pulse data to a smartphone. (Kyodo)

Spider silk-based T-shirt materials

Spider silk-based T-shirt materials

Kazuhide Sekiyama, president of Yamagata-based biotech venture Spiber Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2019, to publicize a T-shirt (pictured) made from materials developed based on spider silk. Spiber, headquartered in the northeastern Japan city of Tsuruoka, and Tokyo-based sportswear maker Goldwin Inc. will jointly sell the T-shirt, priced at 27,000 yen ($250). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo