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The integration of data gloves into Augmented Reality (AR) applications for medical training increases immersion and realism. By using devices with haptic feedback, better and more intuitive control can be achieved. This has implications for learning and exam preparation, but also enables new home-based learning and independence from physical models and presence. Smooth integration and connection of devices is essential for this purpose. This work aims to demonstrate native integration between an augmented reality headset, and a pair of data gloves. In the future, the use of AR and data gloves in medicine will continue to grow and technological advances will create even more realistic and immersive learning opportunities. The study will evaluate if the SkillsLab+ AR application and haptic feedback provide value to medical training and if they can be used effectively in medical education. The implementation shows promise, and the technology may have a future in other areas as well.

Biobanks are becoming ubiquitous infrastructures in zoology and other non-human life sciences. They promise to store frozen research samples for the long term for future use. That use remains speculative but nevertheless needs to be anticipated. Following the establishment of a physical and digital infrastructure for frozen samples in an animal biobanking project, this article explores how the future is anticipated to remember the past, and how frozen objects are shaped accordingly. Situating the biobank between mundane freezing routines in a research lab and the 'dry' and 'wet' collections of natural history museums, I argue that frozen research objects need to be conserved in two separate ways. The unavailability of cryo-objects in cold storage forces researchers to store materials independently of metadata, while retaining a link between them that allows for their reunion after thawing. The result is a split object, leading a double life at sub-zero and room temperature, linked only through the surface of special plastic containers. Following the making of such split objects, this article offers an elaboration of Radin's 'planned hindsight' as well as a reflection on the universality and particularity of biobanks as standardized scientific memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The preservation of biological matter at extremely low temperatures has gained increasing importance in a broad range of life science fields in recent years. Social and cultural studies of cryotechnologies have often likened the freezing of life to a stillstand of time. This special issue explores the argument that cryotechnologies require us to rethink time and temporality more broadly: freezing does not simply equate to an interruption of the "natural" course of time. Covering diverse types of freezing practices and biological materials—egg cells, cord blood, lab mice, and breast milk—the articles in this issue inquire empirically and theoretically into different ways in which cryotechnologies contribute in making particular pasts, presents, and futures. In engaging with cryopreservation, we have to take into account the complex, sometimes contradictory, pathways in which life, death, and time are made and remade through freezing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]